Ramsey Clark: Divide and Conquer. The Destruction of the Balkan
Federation by the United States and NATO

1: Contents and Introduction

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DIVIDE AND CONQUER

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BALKAN FEDERATION
BY THE UNITED STATES AND NATO.


TABLE OF CONTENTS Page


Introduction 1


PART ONE 1

Centuries of Balkan History Proclaim The Necessity Of Federation To
Prevent War. 1

I. Geography, History and The Rich Mixtures Of
Peoples, Cultures and Republics Conspired To
Create A Special Need For Government Capable
Of Assuring Peace, Equality and Justice In
The Balkans 1

II. The First Balkan Federation: 1919-1941 3

III The First Dismemberment of Yugoslavia: 1941-1945 4

IV For Nearly Half a Century, Yugoslavia Progressed
Domestically and Internationally as a Federal
Republic: 1945-1992 5

V The UN Should Act Now to Assist in Planning
the Creation of A Federation for the Balkans and
Neighboring States 6


PART TWO 6

A BRIEF EXAMINATION OF THE VIOLENT DESTRUCTION OF THE SOCIALIST FEDERAL
REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA BY THE UNITED STATES AND NATO 6

VI With the Economic Collapse of the USSR and
Eastern Bloc Nations the US and Several
Western European Nations Intervened Internally
In the Affairs of Yugoslavia And Its Several
Republic Supporting Secessionist Movements: 1990- 6

VII The Second Dismemberment of Yugoslavia and
The Balkanization of the Balkans: 1992- 8

VIII The US With NATO Commenced Wars Of Aggression
Against Bosnian Serbs and Serbia: 1993- 10

IX The US and NATO Committed Crimes Against
Peace and War Crimes in Their Wars of
Aggression Against Bosnian Serbs and Serbia 11

X The U.S. and NATO Must Be Held Accountable For
Their Illegal War Of Aggression Against Bosnian
Serbs and All Of Serbia, Including Kosovo 13


PART THREE 14

The U.N. Charter Does Not Contain The Power To Create
Criminal Courts And Courts Created By It Are
A Continuing Threat To Peace 14

XI The US Coerced The UN Security Council to Exceed
Its Powers and Create the First International
Criminal Tribunal Through Which The US Could Target
Enemies and Change Regimes 14

XII The US Coerced Creation Of The International
Criminal Tribunal For Former Yugoslavia to
Change Regimes, Weaken Balkan States And Demonize
Serbian Leadership 15

XIII The Bush Administration Intends to Pursue
Unilateral Policies Manifested by Its Wars of
Aggression Against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and
Iraq, the Creation of Targeted AD Hoc Criminal
Tribunals, and Its Destructive Acts Against
International Institutions, Treaties and Law.
The US Can Be Deterred Only By United Commitment
of Members of the United Nations to Its Mandate. 24

XIV The Indictment of the President of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic,
Was A Politically Determined Discriminatory Prosecution 27

XV The Sheer Magnitude And Scope Of The Trial Is Not
Capable of, or Appropriate For Judicial Resolution And
The Pace Of the Trial of Slobodan Milosevic Threatens His
Health and Right To Due Process of Law 29

XVI The UN Should Act Now To Abolish the Ad Hoc
International Criminal Tribunals It Has Created. 30


Conclusion 31


DIVIDE AND CONQUER

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BALKAN FEDERATION BY THE UNITED STATES AND NATO

INTRODUCTION

The break-up of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was
accomplished by foreign pressures, interventions and a war of
aggression by the United States and NATO against Yugoslavia in
the 1990s. It was made possible by the failure of the United
Nations to meet its responsibility to prevent such acts of force
and end the scourge of war.

The International War Crimes Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, created by
the Security Council at the insistence of the US, was part of the
US plans for dismemberment of Yugoslavia and to intimidate and
destroy leaders who were committed to its sovereignty and
independence.

The military assaults by the US and NATO on Yugoslavia violated the
Charter of the UN, the Nuremberg Charter, the NATO treaty, the Geneva
Conventions and other international laws. The creation of the
ICTY violated the Charter of the UN which does not empower the
Security Council to create such courts. Its limited jurisdiction
and authorizing statute violated numerous provisions of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Both the aggression and
the tribunal were intended to destroy the "sovereign equality" of
a Member of the U.N, the principle on which "The Organization is
based." U.N. Charter Article II(1).

The Dismemberment of Yugoslavia, the wars of aggression, the failure to
pay reparations for thousands of lives lost and billions of
dollars of destruction and the illegal ad hoc criminal tribunal
are continuing threats to peace.

The United Nations must act now to help form a new Balkan federation
assuring equal sovereignty with all U.N. Members. For the integrity
of the U.N., it must require accountability by the U.S. and NATO
for the death and destruction they inflicted on Yugoslavia. For
the legality of the U.N. it must abolish all the ad hoc criminal
tribunals it has created and assure the International Criminal
Court all the support it needs to fairly and effectively
prosecute international crimes against peace, humanity and war
crimes and such further jurisdiction as may be necessary to insure
international peace and stability.