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> Catalinotto)
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War criminal Wesley Clark to testify against Milosevic
By John Catalinotto
News item: Gen. Wesley Clark, NATO commander during the 1999 war
against Yugoslavia and current U.S. presidential candidate, will
testify for the prosecution in closed hearings on Dec. 15-16 in The
Hague, Netherlands, at the war-crimes trial of former Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic.
This news is like a nightmare with ingredients that even the Czech
writer Franz Kafka would have been incapable of inventing. A kangaroo
court without fixed rules. A war criminal bearing secret witness. A
head of state charged with war crimes for attempting to keep his
once-socialist and independent country from becoming a colony.
But this absurd trial was manufactured to cover the crimes of the
invaders of the Balkans and rewrite the history of that region's latest
wars.
After World War II, the overturn of capitalist property relations in
most of Eastern Europe came about through reliance on the Soviet Red
Army, which had overthrown the Nazi-collaborator governments there.
With the fall of the USSR more than four decades later, these countries
quickly reverted to capitalism and were penetrated by Western
investments and takeovers.
Not Yugoslavia. Yugoslav partisans had liberated the country from
German imperialism in 1945. The Communist Partisans then succeeded in
uniting the six republics that made up the new Yugoslavia and overthrew
capitalism at the same time. The 1989-1991 Soviet collapse left Yugo
slavia exposed and vulnerable, but still with an army and party loyal
to independence and to what remained of socialist property relations.
This army and party resisted 10 years of subversion, intervention in
Yugoslavia's internal affairs, economic sanctions, NATO military
intervention in 1995 in Bosnia and a 78-day bombing campaign of
civilian targets in 1999. Finally the United States and the Western
European imperialist powers were able to tear apart Yugoslavia. Blatant
financial subversion of the September 2000 elections combined with
military threats overthrew Milosevic and left what remained of Yugo
slavia--Serbia and Montenegro--open to the current U.S.-German takeover.
German capital owns Serbia's newspapers and magazines. U.S. Steel
recently bought the state-of-the-art Sartid steel complex in Smederevo,
Serbia, for a mere $23 million, paying its 9,000 skilled workers the
equivalent of 50 cents an hour.
Meanwhile, Yugoslav workers are trying to resist the ongoing
privatization of industry in their occupied country. And President
Milosevic, much different from a confused Kafka character, is defending
himself before the so-called International Criminal Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia. Through his determined self-defense, he has become a
symbol of Yugoslav resistance to U.S.-NATO rule.
Kangaroo court rewrites history
After overthrowing him, the imperialist powers wanted to punish
Milosevic and all Serbs for the resistance they put up for 10 years.
Their instrument was the NATO-created court, the ICTY, operating under
United Nations auspices. By putting Milosevic and hundreds of others
from the Balkans, mostly Serbs, on trial in The Hague, NATO leaders
placed blame on the Serbs for the Balkans tragedy they themselves
caused.
But the tribunal is inherently illegal. The UN has no authority to
create international tribunals. The ICTY is by definition unjust and
unequal because it is a one-time, one-issue court and only Yugo slavs
can be brought before it.
In Milosevic's case, the ICTY brought charges against him in May
1999--during the 78-day NATO bombing campaign--with the express purpose
of pressuring him to concede.
It is a star-chamber court.
Over 200 prosecution witnesses have testified since Feb. 12, 2002, when
the trial opened. The ICTY's star-chamber character is most apparent
with the appea rance of Gen. Clark. The Bush administration allowed him
to testify only under strict limitations.
According to a Nov. 19 ICTY announcement, the public gallery of the
ICTY will be closed during the course of Clark's testimony. In
addition, "the broadcast of the testimony [will] be delayed for a
period of 48 hours to enable the U.S. government to review the
transcript and make representations as to whether evidence given in
open session should be redacted in order to protect the national
interests of the U.S."
In other words, Clark's testimony and Milosevic's cross-examination
will be censored.
But Clark already published his observations in his 2001 book, "Waging
Mod ern War." The Kosovo war, he writes, "was coercive diplomacy, the
use of armed forces to impose the political will of the NATO nations on
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, or more specifically, on Serbia.
The NATO nations voluntarily undertook this war."
Interviewed in the Nov. 29 Junge Welt, a Berlin daily newspaper, key
Milosevic aide Vladimir Krsljanin said, "I consider these conditions
the Bush regime set as a sign of fear."
Given his skills in cross-examination, the Yugoslav leader could easily
expose Clark as a war criminal of the worst sort. Clark, along with
Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Gerhardt Schroeder and other Western leaders,
committed a "crime against peace" by plotting the war and pillage of
Yugoslavia. An open session with Clark would make this clear.
Reprinted from the Dec. 11, 2003, issue of Workers World newspaper
(Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and
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Oggetto: [icdsm-italia] War criminal Wesley Clark to testify against
Milosevic
> War criminal Wesley Clark to testify against Milosevic (by John
> Catalinotto)
> http://www.workers.org/ww/2003/milosevic1211.php
War criminal Wesley Clark to testify against Milosevic
By John Catalinotto
News item: Gen. Wesley Clark, NATO commander during the 1999 war
against Yugoslavia and current U.S. presidential candidate, will
testify for the prosecution in closed hearings on Dec. 15-16 in The
Hague, Netherlands, at the war-crimes trial of former Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic.
This news is like a nightmare with ingredients that even the Czech
writer Franz Kafka would have been incapable of inventing. A kangaroo
court without fixed rules. A war criminal bearing secret witness. A
head of state charged with war crimes for attempting to keep his
once-socialist and independent country from becoming a colony.
But this absurd trial was manufactured to cover the crimes of the
invaders of the Balkans and rewrite the history of that region's latest
wars.
After World War II, the overturn of capitalist property relations in
most of Eastern Europe came about through reliance on the Soviet Red
Army, which had overthrown the Nazi-collaborator governments there.
With the fall of the USSR more than four decades later, these countries
quickly reverted to capitalism and were penetrated by Western
investments and takeovers.
Not Yugoslavia. Yugoslav partisans had liberated the country from
German imperialism in 1945. The Communist Partisans then succeeded in
uniting the six republics that made up the new Yugoslavia and overthrew
capitalism at the same time. The 1989-1991 Soviet collapse left Yugo
slavia exposed and vulnerable, but still with an army and party loyal
to independence and to what remained of socialist property relations.
This army and party resisted 10 years of subversion, intervention in
Yugoslavia's internal affairs, economic sanctions, NATO military
intervention in 1995 in Bosnia and a 78-day bombing campaign of
civilian targets in 1999. Finally the United States and the Western
European imperialist powers were able to tear apart Yugoslavia. Blatant
financial subversion of the September 2000 elections combined with
military threats overthrew Milosevic and left what remained of Yugo
slavia--Serbia and Montenegro--open to the current U.S.-German takeover.
German capital owns Serbia's newspapers and magazines. U.S. Steel
recently bought the state-of-the-art Sartid steel complex in Smederevo,
Serbia, for a mere $23 million, paying its 9,000 skilled workers the
equivalent of 50 cents an hour.
Meanwhile, Yugoslav workers are trying to resist the ongoing
privatization of industry in their occupied country. And President
Milosevic, much different from a confused Kafka character, is defending
himself before the so-called International Criminal Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia. Through his determined self-defense, he has become a
symbol of Yugoslav resistance to U.S.-NATO rule.
Kangaroo court rewrites history
After overthrowing him, the imperialist powers wanted to punish
Milosevic and all Serbs for the resistance they put up for 10 years.
Their instrument was the NATO-created court, the ICTY, operating under
United Nations auspices. By putting Milosevic and hundreds of others
from the Balkans, mostly Serbs, on trial in The Hague, NATO leaders
placed blame on the Serbs for the Balkans tragedy they themselves
caused.
But the tribunal is inherently illegal. The UN has no authority to
create international tribunals. The ICTY is by definition unjust and
unequal because it is a one-time, one-issue court and only Yugo slavs
can be brought before it.
In Milosevic's case, the ICTY brought charges against him in May
1999--during the 78-day NATO bombing campaign--with the express purpose
of pressuring him to concede.
It is a star-chamber court.
Over 200 prosecution witnesses have testified since Feb. 12, 2002, when
the trial opened. The ICTY's star-chamber character is most apparent
with the appea rance of Gen. Clark. The Bush administration allowed him
to testify only under strict limitations.
According to a Nov. 19 ICTY announcement, the public gallery of the
ICTY will be closed during the course of Clark's testimony. In
addition, "the broadcast of the testimony [will] be delayed for a
period of 48 hours to enable the U.S. government to review the
transcript and make representations as to whether evidence given in
open session should be redacted in order to protect the national
interests of the U.S."
In other words, Clark's testimony and Milosevic's cross-examination
will be censored.
But Clark already published his observations in his 2001 book, "Waging
Mod ern War." The Kosovo war, he writes, "was coercive diplomacy, the
use of armed forces to impose the political will of the NATO nations on
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, or more specifically, on Serbia.
The NATO nations voluntarily undertook this war."
Interviewed in the Nov. 29 Junge Welt, a Berlin daily newspaper, key
Milosevic aide Vladimir Krsljanin said, "I consider these conditions
the Bush regime set as a sign of fear."
Given his skills in cross-examination, the Yugoslav leader could easily
expose Clark as a war criminal of the worst sort. Clark, along with
Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Gerhardt Schroeder and other Western leaders,
committed a "crime against peace" by plotting the war and pillage of
Yugoslavia. An open session with Clark would make this clear.
Reprinted from the Dec. 11, 2003, issue of Workers World newspaper
(Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and
distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not
allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY,
NY 10011; via email: ww@.... Subscribe
wwnews-on@.... Unsubscribe wwnews-off@.... Support
independent news http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php)
==========================
ICDSM - Sezione Italiana
c/o GAMADI, Via L. Da Vinci 27
00043 Ciampino (Roma)
email: icdsm-italia@...
Conto Corrente Postale numero 86557006
intestato ad Adolfo Amoroso, ROMA
causale: DIFESA MILOSEVIC