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> THE PRICE OF TRUTH
> by Diana Johnstone [posted 29-3-2001]
>
> [Note: On March 23-24 the Belgrade Forum hosted an
> international conference
> to commemorate and analyze the NATO aggression against
> Yugoslavia. Diana
> Johnstone, whose work awakened many of us to the truth
> about the
> U.S./German/British assault on Yugoslavia, could not
> attend. However, she
> sent the following statement. It includes most interesting
> comments about the
> U.S.-pushed effort to jail Yugoslav President Miloshevich
> who was removed
> from office Oct. 5th in what is described oxymoronically
> in the Western press
> as a "democratic coup."- Jared Israel]
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> Thank you very much for your invitation to attend the
> Conference on "The
> Truth About NATO Aggression". The 24th of March, 1999, was
> a day of lies,
> injustice and war that must be neither forgotten nor
> forgiven. The injustice,
> the loss of life and the destruction cannot be undone, but
> the lies must be
> relentlessly denounced and exposed. It is appropriate to
> hold such a
> conference on Truth on this tragic anniversary -- this
> year and no doubt for
> years to come, as the task of establishing the truth is
> likely to be long and
> hard.
>
> Unfortunately, this year I am unable to attend for
> personal reasons. However,
> I wish to stress that my absence in no way indicates any
> lessening of my
> commitment to the struggle for truth, justice and peace in
> the Balkans. This
> struggle is now in a very difficult phase, as the United
> States is bringing
> all manner of pressure to force the Serbs themselves to
> endorse the falsified
> version of history used by NATO to justify the cruel and
> illegal air war
> launched against Yugoslavia just two years ago.
>
> It was not enough to bomb Yugoslavia, killing innocent
> civilians and
> destroying the country's infrastructure, or to turn over
> part of its
> territory to criminal bands of armed racists who murder
> defenseless citizens
> and mount new military provocations as NATO looks on
> helplessly. The United
> States and its NATO partners now demand that Serbian
> authorities cooperate in
> rewriting history in order to blame the victim not only
> for the bombing but
> for all the wars that ravaged Yugoslavia throughout the
> 1990s. That is the
> reason for the insistent demand to turn over former
> President Milosevic to
> the "International Criminal Tribunal". The objective is a
> political show
> trial, no different from the notorious show trials of past
> dictatorial
> regimes, designed to rewrite history to suit the dominant
> power and its
> clients.
>
> American officials are quoted as urging Serbian
> authorities to keep searching
> for some crime committed by Milosevic, since "he's
> certainly guilty of
> something..." No such frantic search is necessary to find
> the guilt of NATO
> leaders. They launched an illegal war. They targeted
> civilian infrastructure,
> used toxic weapons. The evidence has been compiled by
> jurists in several
> countries. The matter is clear. But the ICTY prosecutor
> refused to
> investigate NATO, not surprisingly, since she works for
> them, although she
> seems not even to realize it.
>
> The demand to extradite a former head of state to a
> grossly biased political
> Tribunal in return for dollars is an attempt to turn
> Serbian government
> ministers into bounty hunters. A reward of $5 million is
> offered for
> Milosevic. The U.S. Congress dangles aid dollars in front
> of Serbian
> officials, and gives them a deadline to comply with U.S.
> dictates by the end
> of the month or else the goodies will be snatched away.
> Serbia is summoned by
> the United States to abandon its dignity and capacity to
> judge its own
> reality in exchange for a fistful of dollars -- a scenario
> worthy of a
> spaghetti Western.
>
> Milosevic -- and Serbia -- must be found guilty in order
> to prove that NATO
> was innocent. The bounty hunters might profit from the
> bounty money. The
> Serbian people would pay dearly. Politically, materially
> and in the right to
> their own truth.
>
> At the conference in Belgrade last year, I remarked that I
> did not consider
> it my business to intervene in Yugoslavia's internal
> politics. I can
> understand that people may be tired of suffering
> hardships, of being treated
> as pariahs by the Western powers, isolated and subjected
> to sanctions. I can
> understand they may grasp at illusions. I can understand
> that they may want
> to be treated as "normal", regardless of the price. But
> watch out! The price
> for giving up the truth and abandoning justice may be much
> higher than it
> seems. Serbia deserves the respect of the world, and this
> respect is and will
> continue to be earned by a courageous and stubborn
> devotion to truth.
>
> Send this article to a friend! {Does not work with all
> email programs...}
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>
> THE PRICE OF TRUTH
> by Diana Johnstone [posted 29-3-2001]
>
> [Note: On March 23-24 the Belgrade Forum hosted an
> international conference
> to commemorate and analyze the NATO aggression against
> Yugoslavia. Diana
> Johnstone, whose work awakened many of us to the truth
> about the
> U.S./German/British assault on Yugoslavia, could not
> attend. However, she
> sent the following statement. It includes most interesting
> comments about the
> U.S.-pushed effort to jail Yugoslav President Miloshevich
> who was removed
> from office Oct. 5th in what is described oxymoronically
> in the Western press
> as a "democratic coup."- Jared Israel]
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> Thank you very much for your invitation to attend the
> Conference on "The
> Truth About NATO Aggression". The 24th of March, 1999, was
> a day of lies,
> injustice and war that must be neither forgotten nor
> forgiven. The injustice,
> the loss of life and the destruction cannot be undone, but
> the lies must be
> relentlessly denounced and exposed. It is appropriate to
> hold such a
> conference on Truth on this tragic anniversary -- this
> year and no doubt for
> years to come, as the task of establishing the truth is
> likely to be long and
> hard.
>
> Unfortunately, this year I am unable to attend for
> personal reasons. However,
> I wish to stress that my absence in no way indicates any
> lessening of my
> commitment to the struggle for truth, justice and peace in
> the Balkans. This
> struggle is now in a very difficult phase, as the United
> States is bringing
> all manner of pressure to force the Serbs themselves to
> endorse the falsified
> version of history used by NATO to justify the cruel and
> illegal air war
> launched against Yugoslavia just two years ago.
>
> It was not enough to bomb Yugoslavia, killing innocent
> civilians and
> destroying the country's infrastructure, or to turn over
> part of its
> territory to criminal bands of armed racists who murder
> defenseless citizens
> and mount new military provocations as NATO looks on
> helplessly. The United
> States and its NATO partners now demand that Serbian
> authorities cooperate in
> rewriting history in order to blame the victim not only
> for the bombing but
> for all the wars that ravaged Yugoslavia throughout the
> 1990s. That is the
> reason for the insistent demand to turn over former
> President Milosevic to
> the "International Criminal Tribunal". The objective is a
> political show
> trial, no different from the notorious show trials of past
> dictatorial
> regimes, designed to rewrite history to suit the dominant
> power and its
> clients.
>
> American officials are quoted as urging Serbian
> authorities to keep searching
> for some crime committed by Milosevic, since "he's
> certainly guilty of
> something..." No such frantic search is necessary to find
> the guilt of NATO
> leaders. They launched an illegal war. They targeted
> civilian infrastructure,
> used toxic weapons. The evidence has been compiled by
> jurists in several
> countries. The matter is clear. But the ICTY prosecutor
> refused to
> investigate NATO, not surprisingly, since she works for
> them, although she
> seems not even to realize it.
>
> The demand to extradite a former head of state to a
> grossly biased political
> Tribunal in return for dollars is an attempt to turn
> Serbian government
> ministers into bounty hunters. A reward of $5 million is
> offered for
> Milosevic. The U.S. Congress dangles aid dollars in front
> of Serbian
> officials, and gives them a deadline to comply with U.S.
> dictates by the end
> of the month or else the goodies will be snatched away.
> Serbia is summoned by
> the United States to abandon its dignity and capacity to
> judge its own
> reality in exchange for a fistful of dollars -- a scenario
> worthy of a
> spaghetti Western.
>
> Milosevic -- and Serbia -- must be found guilty in order
> to prove that NATO
> was innocent. The bounty hunters might profit from the
> bounty money. The
> Serbian people would pay dearly. Politically, materially
> and in the right to
> their own truth.
>
> At the conference in Belgrade last year, I remarked that I
> did not consider
> it my business to intervene in Yugoslavia's internal
> politics. I can
> understand that people may be tired of suffering
> hardships, of being treated
> as pariahs by the Western powers, isolated and subjected
> to sanctions. I can
> understand they may grasp at illusions. I can understand
> that they may want
> to be treated as "normal", regardless of the price. But
> watch out! The price
> for giving up the truth and abandoning justice may be much
> higher than it
> seems. Serbia deserves the respect of the world, and this
> respect is and will
> continue to be earned by a courageous and stubborn
> devotion to truth.
>
> Send this article to a friend! {Does not work with all
> email programs...}
>
> We may be free but we do need money...
>
> Emperor's Clothes does not charge a subscription fee. But
> of course nothing
> is free.
>
> We rely mainly on volunteer labor. Nevertheless there are
> plenty of bills.
> For example, the cost of Lexis, our search engine, has
> doubled. Lexis is the
> best method of rapidly locating news stories from several
> thousand sources
> over the past twenty years. It is probably the best
> political research tool
> ever available. But now it costs twice as much.
>
> We rely on our readers for contributions. If you like what
> we're trying to
> do, please help.
>
> Please mail a check to Emperor's Clothes, P.O. Box
> 610-321, Newton, MA
> 02461-0321. (USA)
>
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