Oggi a New York la seduta conclusiva del Tribunale "Clark"

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Oggi 13 giugno 2000 a New York 
la seduta conclusiva del Tribunale "Clark"

" A public meeting to launch a worldwide movement to abolish NATO "

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PROGRAMMA E DETTAGLI DELLA GIORNATA ORGANIZZATA
DALL'INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER


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From: iacenter@iacenter.org <iacenter@iacenter.org>
To: activist general <iacenter@iacenter.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 9:59 PM
Subject: Program for 6/10 Tribunal on US/NATO Crimes in Yugoslavia


INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL ON 
U.S./NATO WAR CRIMES IN YUGOSLAVIA

Saturday, June 10 --
A public meeting to launch a worldwide movement to abolish NATO

***FOLLOWING: Featured speakers and schedule for day***

11 am sharp to 7 pm 
Doors open 10 am: slides, video
Martin Luther King HS Auditorium (W. 65th St. & Amsterdam, 
Manhattan, NYC)
donation requested

On June 10, 2000, the International Action Center is holding a day-
long International Tribunal on U.S./NATO War Crimes Against 
Yugoslavia. This is the one-year anniversary of NATO's occupation 
of Kosovo. The initial hearing last July 31 in NY was followed by 
similar hearings in a dozen U.S. cities and in Belgrade, Buenas Aires, 
Oslo, Novi Sad, Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Moscow, Kiev, Sydney, and 
Tokyo. At a mass peoples tribunal in Athens last fall, 10,000 people 
found Clinton guilty of war crimes. 

Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark will prosecute U.S. and 
NATO leaders for 19 charges of war crimes, crimes against peace, 
and crimes against humanity. International expert witnesses will 
present testimony. A distinguished international panel of judges will 
hear the case. 

Come and be part of this historic event.

FEATURING INTERNATIONAL DELEGATES FROM 15 
COUNTRIES, including:
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark;
Prof. Michel Chossudofsky, economist and author;
Margarita Papandreou, former first lady of Greece;
Pat Chin, journalist;
Ismael Guadalupe, leader of the movement to get the U.S. Navy out 
of Vieques, Puerto Rico;
Former Admiral Elmar Schmaehling, leading spokesperson for 
German movement;
Michel Collon, Belgian journalist, anti-war activist, author about 
NATO aggression in the Balkans;
Sara Flounders and Brian Becker, Co-Directors, International Action 
Center;
Gloria La Riva and Richard Becker, West Coast Regional Co-
Directors, International Action Center;
Shani Rifati, Voices of Roma;
Mikhail I. Kuznetzov, president of the Russian/Slavic War Crimes 
Tribunal against NATO;
Roland Keith, Canadian officer attached to the Observer Group in 
Kosovo in 1998-1999;
Jorge Farinacci, Puerto Rican Socialist Front;
Monica Moorehead, Millions for Mumia;
Prof. George Wright, author;
Janet Eaton, biologist and encironment expert, Canada;
Angeles Maestro Martin, member of the Spanish Parliament;
Raniero La Valle, Italian religious anti-war leader, former MP;
Charles Pascal Tolno, president of the African Association of Writers 
from Guinea (Conakry);
Gilles Troude, an editor of Balkans-Info, Paris, France;
Ben Dupuy, former Haitian ambassador at large during the Aristide 
administration;
Olga Mejia, former director of Panamanian Human Rights 
Commission;


SCHEDULE FOR JUNE 10:

10 am: Doors open: food, displays, video

11 am sharp: Opening remarks by Ramsey Clark and others

11:30 am to 2 pm: Plenary sessions on Crimes against peace, Crimes 
against humanity & War Crimes

2 to 2:30 pm: Break for lunch (food available at hall)

2:30 to 4 pm: Panel discussions: 
(1) The Role of the Media, 
(2) Current conditions in Kosovo, 
(3) Building a world movement to abolish NATO, 
(4) Legal issues, 
(5) Planning and preparation for war

4 to 5:30 pm: Plenary: including Ramsey Clark and the worldwide 
initiative to abolish NATO

5:30 to 6:15 pm: Reports from hearings around the world

6:15 to 7 pm: Judges render verdict


International Tribunal on U.S./NATO War Crimes in Yugoslavia
c/o International Action Center

International Action Center
39 West 14th Street, Room 206
New York, NY 10011
email: iacenter@iacenter.org
web: www.iacenter.org
CHECK OUT THE NEW SITE www.mumia2000.org
phone: 212 633-6646
fax:   212 633-2889



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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the June 1, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
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WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL JUNE 10:
THE BEST SENTENCE: A MOVEMENT TO ABOLISH NATO

By John Catalinotto
New York

People are coming to New York from around the world to put
U.S. and NATO leaders on trial for last year's aggression
against Yugoslavia and the ongoing occupation of Kosovo.

On June 10 people from at least 16 countries who have led
the movement against NATO's war will gather to hear
evidence and render a verdict regarding charges of crimes
against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The
tribunal will hear evidence on 19 charges prepared in July
1999 by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

But, organizers say, the International Tribunal on
U.S./NATO War Crimes in Yugoslavia is not simply reviewing
the past. "The Pentagon and NATO," International Action
Center co-coordinator Brian Becker told Workers World, "are
clearly guilty of the most extreme war crimes against the
people of Yugoslavia." The IAC initiated the tribunal last
July.

"These crimes have a method and an objective," said
Becker. "Their goal is to impose Washington and Wall Street
domination over all of Eastern Europe and into the former
republics of what was the USSR. The war against Yugoslavia
was a prelude to new aggression in the region. It also
holds dangers for all of North Africa and the Middle East,
and possibly for sub-Saharan Africa and South America.

"In light of this," Becker continued, "the most effective
sentence the tribunal can render will be to use its
authority to launch a world-wide movement of the people to
abolish NATO. This is not merely a slogan, but will become
a crusade for all those who oppose war and colonialism."

THE TRIBUNAL'S AUTHORITY

"The tribunal's authority comes from the prestige and the
record of its participants," said Becker. They come mostly
from NATO countries and from those subject to potential
attack from the Pentagon and NATO, like Korea, Iraq, Cuba,
and Haiti, for example.

The following have accepted invitations to participate:

* Charles Pascal Tolno of Guinea (Conakry), president of
the Association of African Writers.

* Angeles Maestro Martin, member of the Spanish Parliament
and a leader in the movement to stop the sanctions on Iraq.

* Ben Dupuy, former Haitian ambassador to the United
Nations.

* Olga Mejia, former president of the Panamanian Human
Rights Organization.

* Retired admiral Elmar Schmaehling, who has become a
leading spokesperson in the anti-war movement in Germany.
He will be accompanied by at least five others who have
organized tribunals in Germany, including a June 2-3
Europe-wide tribunal coming up in Berlin.

* Monica Moorehead, a leader of the Millions for Mumia
organization in the U.S., will speak on the links between
racism and war. Also participating will be representatives
of those who fought the IMF/World Bank in Washington in
April.

* Rom activist Shani Rifati will report on the plight of
his people in NATO-occupied Kosovo.

* Michel Collon, an author and activist from Belgium who
has confronted NATO spokesperson Jamie Shea at public
meetings with exposures of Shea's lies. Collon will bring
his new book "Monopoly," and his video "Fifteen Belgians
Under the Bombs."

* Ismael Guadalupe, a leading spokesperson of the movement
fighting the U.S. Navy's use of Vieques, Puerto Rico, for
target practice.

* Jorge Farinacci of the Puerto Rican Socialist Front.

* Raniero La Valle, Italian religious leader.

* Fulvio Grimaldi, filmmaker, and three others from the
Italian tribunal movement. They are holding their national
meeting on June 3.

* Gilles Troude, a member of the editorial board of the
French monthly anti-NATO magazine Balkans-Info.

* Margarita Papandreou, former first lady of Greece, a
center of militant anti-war actions in Europe. Others
involved in the Greek anti-NATO movement are expected.

* Canadian author and lecturer Michel Chossudovsky.

* Roland Keith, a Canadian who served on the observer
mission in Kosovo at the end of 1998 and the beginning of
1999.

* Depleted uranium expert Rosalie Bertell from Canada.

* Environmental expert Janet Eaton from Canada.

* Scott Taylor, a Canadian expert on the expulsion of the
Serb people from the Krajina in Croatia.

* Leading members of the "Slav Tribunal" organized out of
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and other former USSR republics.

* Representatives from the tribunal in Austria, which
found Austrian politician Wolfgang Petritch guilty for his
role in delivering the Rambouillet ultimatum to the
Yugoslav leaders, thereby provoking the war.

* California professor George Wright, an expert on Angola.

* Malcolm Cummings, who helped organize a tribunal hearing
in Sydney, Australia.

* Chicana activist Gloria La Riva, who produced the video
"NATO Targets."

* IAC co-coordinator Sara Flounders.

* IAC organizers Pat Chin and Richard Becker. The Boston
IAC, which is holding a hearing on June 4 in collaboration
with Serbian organizations, will also bring a delegation.

* Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general and founder
of the IAC, will preside over the tribunal.

"On May 21, another child was killed by a leftover NATO
cluster bomb and two were badly wounded," said Brian
Becker. "All were Kosovar Albanians from Pristina. More
countries in Eastern Europe, from the Baltic states to the
Balkans and even the Caucasus, are pleading to join NATO as
they submit to a new colonialism.

"This shows all the more that the tribunal must not only
look back over the criminal war but look forward to
building a movement to abolish NATO."

The tribunal will be held at the Martin Luther King High
School Auditorium at 65th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in
Manhattan. Doors open at 10 a.m. The program runs from 11
a.m. to 7 p.m. For more information, call the IAC at (212)
633-6646.

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acenter@iacenter.org 
International Action Center
May 19, 2000 

NEW REVELATIONS ARE FURTHER PROOF OF U.S. WAR CRIMES 

New revelations that NATO's high-altitude bombing of Yugoslavia was far
less successful than claimed at the time, are "further proof of U.S. war
crimes against Yugoslavia," said Sara Flounders, national co-director of
the International Action Center on May 10. 

"This will provide additional evidence for the International War Crimes
Tribunal we will hold in New York June 9-10 to try U.S. and NATO
political and military leaders for war crimes, crimes against humanity
and crimes against peace," Flounders said. 

Newsweek magazine had gotten hold of an internal U.S. Air Force report
showing that only 58 of NATO's so-called high-precision strikes hit
their targets. This compares with 744 NATO claimed at the end of the
bombing campaign. 

"The claims of high accuracy with little harm to civilians," said
Flounders, "was just another in the long line of lies NATO spokespeople
used to justify massive attacks on civilian targets in Yugoslavia." 

A special investigation team from the U.S. and other NATO air forces
searched Kosovo on foot and by helicopter. U.S. top officers boasted
that NATO forces had disabled "around 120 tanks", "about 220 armored
personnel carriers" and "up to 450 artillery and mortar pieces" in 78
days of bombing. 

The investigators reported instead that NATO hit just 14 tanks, 18 APCs
and 20 artillery and mortar pieces, less than one tenth of NATO claims.
These figures are quite close to the losses Yugoslav forces reported at
the end of the war. NATO dismissed the Yugoslav report as
"disinformation" at the time. 

The investigators found out that U.S. and NATO high-altitude air power
was effective chiefly against civilian targets. It was the bombing of
cities and power stations that most damaged Serbia. 
Flounders noted that the report, made last summer, had never been made
public. A second report, which reported hits closer to NATO and the
Pentagon's boasts, was then used. 

"The Newsweek article avoided the implications that the U.S. and NATO
commanders violated the rules of war by striking civilian targets," said
Flounders. "Instead, it pointed to the efficacy of striking the civilian
infrastructure of a country, which in the case of Yugoslavia includes
hundreds of schools, dozens of hospitals and almost every major
industry. In effect it advocates new war crimes." 

Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark had drawn up the original charge
sheet against NATO leaders, which added up to 19 charges. Charge number
9, said Flounders, was "Attacking Objects Indispensable to the Survival
of the Population of Yugoslavia," including depriving the population of
Yugoslavia of food, water, electric power, food production, medicines,
medical care and other essentials to their survival, [by engaging] in
the systematic destruction and damage by missiles and aerial bombardment
of food production and storage facilities, drinking water and irrigation
works for agriculture, fertilizer, insecticide, pharmaceutical,
hospitals and health care facilities, among other objects essential to
human survival. 

"The NATO commanders, fearing the complete failure of their campaign
against the Yugoslav military, concentrated on hitting civilian
targets," said Flounders. "This is clearly a war crime, and we will
prove this before the world on June 10." 


International Action Center
39 West 14th Street, Room 206
New York, NY 10011 
email: iacenter@iacenter.org
web: www.iacenter.org



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