(Conspiracy Nation, 03/20/06)
-- The first casualty of war is the truth. With the fog of war now
lifting from over the former Yugoslavia, through the haze can be seen
what the 1990s war there was about.
As former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark puts it, there has been
a "devilization in misunderstandings." (http://www.icdsm.org/COH/Clark.htm)
Otherwise known as the Balkans, the region was the flashpoint
igniting World War I. Following that conflict, it was hoped that a
Federation of Southern Slavs would stabilize the Balkans.
"The first dismemberment or cannibalization," states Clark, "of a
Federation of Southern Slavs occurred rapidly in April of 1941." The
Federation was ripped apart by German Nazis and Italian Fascists.
After World War II, the Nuremberg Trials determined wars of
aggression to be "the supreme international crime, and included among
the wars of aggression that were adjudicated, the defendants accused
and found guilty, was the cannibalization of Yugoslavia." (Clark, op.
cit.)
The Federation of Southern Slavs reformed and was known as
Yugoslavia. It maintained a high degree of independence during the Cold
War. It was right in the middle. (Ibid.)
When the Soviet Union collapsed circa 1991, by contrast Yugoslavia's
economic potential was growing. Ramsey Clark believes the "capitalist
plutocracy" would not tolerate Yugoslavia as an example contrary to
Western hegemony.
"90 percent of the economic trade of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia was among the six federations... The economic viability of
any of the republics depended on that association." To break up the
Federation would make it easier for imperialist nations to exploit the
separated republics. There was also the motivation to portray the
socialist Federation as "a system that didn't work." (Ibid.)
"Balkanizing" means "To break into small parts." The imperialist
powers "balkanized the Balkans as they have never been balkanized
before." (Ibid.)
During America's Civil War, European intent was similar: to
cannibalize the united States. Abraham Lincoln and loyal citizens
successfully resisted the attempt. (Unfortunately, traitors within the
Union staged a coup d'etat in April 1865.)
"Slobodan Milosevic," states the former U.S. Attorney General, "is
blamed for doing what Abraham Lincoln did in the Civil War. And that
is, trying to preserve the Union." (Ibid.)
To utterly destroy Yugoslavia, it was necessary "to demonize and
destroy the leadership that sought to preserve the Yugoslav Union."
(Ibid.) And so, Slobodan Milosevic, among others, was carted off to a
United Nations tribunal at the Hague.
According to Clark, the United Nations Charter contains no provision
authorizing creation of an International Criminal Court. So, besides
outrageous treatment of defendant Slobodan Milosevic by the Hague
tribunal, "the court itself
is illegal, it violates the U.N. Charter." (Ibid.)
In the United States, the recent trial of Michael Jackson was
covered extensively by the press. On the other hand, the Milosevic
trial and imprisonment -- lasting four years -- received scant press
coverage. Conspiracy Nation
itself was unaware, until recently, of the enduring Milosevic
inquisition.
The highest form of patriotism, suggests Clark, is to protest what
your country does when it's wrong. Nonetheless, an atmosphere of fear
prevails here -- fear of anonymous phone calls questioning your
Americanism, for example. Yet it must be safe, at this point, to notice
that the NATO bombing in Serbia was deadly. That cluster bombs were
used. That there were "thousands of deaths against an association of
defenseless people." (Ibid.)
Bill Clinton's Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, led the effort
to bring about the Hague tribunal. When the supreme international crime
is the war of aggression, who are the true war criminals? Yet the
illegal Hague court went after men with funny hairstyles -- Serb
leaders -- and tip-toed around others facing the most serious charge.
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