"The Rambouillet text, which called on Serbia to admit NATO troops throughout Yugoslavia was a provocation, an excuse to start bombing," - Dr Henry Kissinger Former US Secretary of State and a Nobel Peace Prize Winner.

“The military annexe of the Rambouillet proposals. . . would never have been acceptable to the Yugoslav side, since it was a significant infringement of its sovereignty,” - UK Government’s All-party Foreign Affairs Committee report, Lessons from Kosovo, October 2000.

“I think certain people in NATO were spoiling for a fight at that time. I think the terms put to Milosevic at Rambouillet were absolutely intolerable: how could he possibly accept them? It was quite deliberate.” - Lord Gilbert, Defence Minister of State, responsible for intelligence, 1999. Reported in The Guardian, 21 July 2000.

“Given the alleged purity of NATO motives - having the objective of assuring truth, freedom and the democratic way, was the bombing subject to censure under international law? The short answer is that the bombing was an act in flagrant contempt of international law, and criminal under that law,” - Walter Rockler, Former Nuremberg Prosecutor.

“Our conclusion is that Operation Allied Force was contrary to the specific terms of. . . the basic law of the international community,” - UK Government’s All-party Foreign Affairs Committee report, Lessons from Kosovo, October 2000.

“The aggressor has kicked aside the UN, opening a new era where might is right,” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, quoted by Noam Chomsky in The New Military Humanism

“It is harmful to every human on earth for the UN to be the captive of the US, including for the people of the US. This is true because when you realise what your country has done, and continues to do around the world, it destroys your own spirit if you don’t resist it.” - Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States.

“Like me, many now fear that NATO and the United States in the future may take upon itself the ‘right’ to use military force when and where it pleases and that we are facing a 21st century which is considerably less safe than even the last one,” - Alice Mahon, MP

“Tens of thousands of Serbs, Roma and others have been ethnically cleansed from Kosovo, under the watchful eyes of the mighty occupation armies. This shows that NATO didn’t intervene there for humanitarian reasons and that this claim is hypocritical.” - Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States.

"As a state and nation, it is our duty to know and remember the evil inflicted by others and by ourselves, if for no other reason than to avoid its recurrence," - Yugoslav Government statement published by official press agency, 15 March 2001.

"Our co-operation with the North Atlantic Treaty, which is clearly necessary, would be based on bad and fragile foundations if we were to act as if nothing had happened in the spring of 1999." - Vojislav Kostunica, President of Yugoslavia.

“This was the KLA's national plan. All loyal Albanians were to leave during the bombing and go to Albania or Macedonia to show the world how terrible the Serbs were; this exodus was staged; it was a performance, Hollywood in Kosovo. . . The KLA and NATO were telling Albanians: NATO supports the KLA. After NATO takes over, the KLA will be in charge and if you don't leave now you will be in big trouble later. There will be no safe refuge.” - Cedda Pralinchevich, Kosovan historian in an interview with Jared Israel. www.tenc.net

“Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.” - Slobodan Milosevic to a crowd estimated at one million people at the biggest ever Serbian national event, on 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, 28 June 1989.