NATO ON TRIAL
The Deceptions, Illegality, and Tragedy of the Bombing of Yugoslavia
The manipulation of public opinion, the media and politicians - a UK
perspective
By David Roberts
© David Roberts 2001
CONTENTS
FACTS WHICH, IF THEY HAD BEEN KNOWN BY POLITICIANS AND THE PUBLIC IN
MARCH 1999, WOULD HAVE PREVENTED THE BOMBING OF YUGOSLAVIA
A - Racak - What Members of Parliament were told and not told
The Racak “ massacre” - a media event to start a war
Racak as presented to Parliament - Parliament misled
The forensic evidence
Hasty, inexpert, and questionable interpretation of Racak evidence
What Parliament was not told about Racak - Parliament misled
What Parliament was not told about the experience of Serbs - Parliament misled
Serb restraint not reported to Parliament - parliament misled
Eye witness accounts - important discrepancies
Another possibility
Who was to gain from the public display of the victims?
B - The Rambouillet public relations charade
An unsatisfactory basis for talks
Arbitrary time limit
Was it true the Mr Milosevic would not negotiate ?
The wrong people negotiating
Biassed mediators
NATO’s determination to make the Rambouillet negotiations fail
Rambouillet negotiating procedure illegal under international law
A basic rule of civilised countries
Whose interest was NATO determined to fight for?
Who was intransigent? Reasons for continuing talking, reasons to prepare for war
The winning ploy - an “agreement” that could never be signed
The secret Rambouillet document the world needed to see
5 COUNT DOWN TO BOMBING
6 WHICH CAME FIRST, THE DECISION TO BOMB OR THE FLIGHT OF THE REFUGEES?
Refugees - how the exodus built-up
Who were the refugees? - the publicised and the un-publicised
The spurious claim that the bombing saved the refugees
Better never to have intervened
7 SOME MISLEADING STATEMENTS TO PARLIAMENT
Avoiding humanitarian catastrophe
Targeting the military
Destabilisation
The situation in Kosovo on 23 March 1999
Mr Milosevic’s record
Betrayal of Parliament’s trust
8 THE TRUTH TONY BLAIR MIGHT HAVE PRESENTED TO PARLIAMENT ON 23 MARCH 1999
9 NO CASE FOR BOMBING YUGOSLAVIA
10 WORLD ALARM - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS RADICALLY CHANGED
Respect for Western democracies evaporates
Greece
Norway
Italy
Russia
India, China and Russia
Coup d’etat against the United Nations
Nelson Mandela - chaos in place of international law
11 BRITISH PEOPLE EXPECT
APPENDIX 1 - US Motives in Bombing Yugoslavia
Domination and the arms trade
Oil
Control and exploitation of Kosovo - NATO, globalisation’s army - Yugoslavia for sale
Advancing US military presence
Money buys influence
Appendix 2 - Serb/Albanian Relationships
Appendix 3 - Serb Fears in Kosovo
Appendix 4 - KLA Aims
a. KLA aim of a Greater Albania
b. Ethnic purity
c. Purpose and callousness of KLA provocation
APPENDIX 5 - The UN is dead - The New NATO Treaty
War to advance national interests
New Speak - the language of the New Politicians of the New World Order
Is there a new treaty?
The UN is dead
The new elements in the new treaty
NATO rules
UK Parliament discussion of new NATO Treaty - full text
APPENDIX 6 - Humanitarian Intervention
True humanitarian intervention
The independence and integrity of peace keeping forces
Non-exploitive intervention
The media
Failure all round
APPENDIX 7 - YUGOSLAVIA AND THE UN, NOVEMBER 2001
APPENDIX 8 - Foreign Policy is Everyone’s Concern
APPENDIX 9 - What hope for the future?
A world problem
Yugoslavia
Letter from Belgrade to Albanian friends, June 1999
SUPPORTING NOTES
EXPERT COMMENTS ON THE BOMBING OF YUGOSLAVIA
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