There was no case for the bombing
of Yugoslavia. It was a crime against humanity and perhaps the
most elaborately and deceitfully justified crime the world has
ever known. The story presented to the world was an astonishing
fabrication of events, half truths, lies, and silences on
vitally important facts. The problems of Kosovo were extremely
serious, but the involvement of NATO powers was worse than
incompetent. Whilst posing as civilised bringers of peace, the
United States and its collaborators brought war, devastation,
economic and ecological ruin, death and misery on a grand scale.
They provoked two enormous
refugee crises, and condoned the expulsion of refugees when
45,000 NATO troops were on hand to prevent it.
They engineered the opening up of
Yugoslavia to the takeover of business assets by western
companies, the whole event being nothing less than robbery with
violence.
They flouted international law
and took away the moral standing, trust, and respect western
democracies enjoyed in the world. They have poisoned
international relations so that as an immediate response Russia,
China and India were drawn into a closer association to form a
balance to the world’s only super power. Russia moved
immediately to adopt a policy of using nuclear weapons in
response to attacks with conventional weapons. There are moves
around the world to increase arms spending as a defence against
the newly aggressive western powers.
The reporting by Tony Blair and
Robin Cook of events leading up to 23 March1999 was seriously
unbalanced, deliberately misleading and clearly racist. The case
they made was dishonest. It provided to Parliament a body of
information which was totally inappropriate for Parliament to
make sensible decisions about a course of action to be taken
that might resolve the deep difficulties in Kosovo.
Democracy cannot function in the
absence of honest information. Not only Yugoslavia but also
democracy and the rule of law were the victims of the NATO
campaigns of information warfare and military aggression.
In a democracy a decision to go
to war would be approved by the elected members of a parliament.
Mr Blair and his close colleagues omitted this important step
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