[PEN-L:4618] Re: IGC-PeaceNet on Kosovo Crisis

[walter daum <WGDCC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For clarification: Does this mean that Amnesty and Human Rights Watch
have made statements in support of the NATO  bombing? Has PeaceNet
made a public statement of its "pro-war position"?

Walter Daum

On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 12:40:27 -0500 Nathan Newman said:
>
>For those who want more information on the horrors going on in Kosovo, I
>would suggest you check out IGC-Peacenet's special Kosovo page at:
>
>http://www.igc.org/igc/pn/hg/kosova.html
>
>They have links to human rights reports and pictures of civilian bodies
>massacred by government troops.  They have statements by Kosovo unions
>begging for armed support from the US and Europe.
>
>Basically, PeaceNet has taken a pro-war position on the Kosovo crisis.
>
>If you go through the various reports and documentation of massacres, it may
>be clearer why many on the left are finding US bombing of Serbian military
>targets an acceptable strategy for stopping this wholesale destruction of
>Kosovo's communities.  Whatever the level of murder you find too low to
>matter -- many have cited a 2000 number of Kosovan murders as too
>inconsequential to demand intervention -- the mass burning of villages and
>ethnic clensing should outrage you.
>
>Many people on these lists have cited the antiwar position of the Serbian
>opposition forces, but let's be clear.  The Kosovan community has been
>begging for military intervention to defend their communities from this
>wholesale carnage and destruction.
>
>And are Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and IGC-Peacenet just
>tools of the KLA?   I've attached one picture of victims from IGC's site.
>Whatever you want to say about the NATO intervention, it so far is
>targetting military targets.  The same cannot be said about the Serbian
>government's troops and police.