[PEN-L:4622] Re: Re: IGC-PeaceNet on Kosovo Crisis

["Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman@xxxxxxxx>]

A number of the human rights organizations have called for Milosevic to be
tried in International Human Rights Tribunals. Now, the groups don't quite
advocate war (since that's not in their mission statements), calling for an
elected leader of a sovereign country to be physically hauled before a war
crimes tribunal usually entails defeat in a war.

As for PeaceNet, check out their site.  They give great prominence in their
official Kosovo site to the KLA and other pro-separatists groups calling for
intervention, while having nothing on the site condemning the NATO
intervention.  For a non-profit that takes no official policy positions
other than promoting groups it approves of, this is de facto their position.

Go to the site.  It speaks for itself.

--Nathan Newman

-----Original Message-----
From: walter daum <WGDCC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, March 28, 1999 1:05 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:4618] Re: IGC-PeaceNet on Kosovo Crisis



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.