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IAC Co-Coordinator Sara Flounders told the large gathering in Berlin, "This meeting is proof that not only the victors of this war will write its history." Flounders' talk, which emphasized the need for further struggle, was frequently interrupted with applause.
Among the German participants in the Berlin hearing were Ret. Admiral Elmar Schmaehling, former director of the military counter-intelligence service of the Federal Republic of Germany, and Dr. Ralph Hartmann, former Ambassador to Yugoslavia for the German Democratic Republic. The audience, like the speakers, represented both West and East German anti-war forces, and was filled with people wearing buttons for U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Gennadi I. Raikov, president of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into NATO's Crimes Against Yugoslavia and an official delegate of the Russian Duma, reported on the military targeting of civilian installations. Activists from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Spain and Yugoslavia also participated.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Richter, coordinator of the Association for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity (GBM), and Laura von Wimmersperg, coordinator of the Peace Coordination of Berlin (FriKo), co-chaired the Berlin hearing. Interviewed in the Nov. 1 Junge Welt, Von Wimmersperg said the organizers will publish a book about the hearing before the winter holiday season. She added that they were working on detailed accounts from committees that reported NATO's crimes in specific areas and hoped to publish that next year.
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