APPENDIX 34
Supplementary memorandum submitted by
The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies
1. We wish to draw the committee's attention
to NATO's contravention of international law by its targeting
of civilian targets in Yugoslavia. More specifically, there is
the incriminating statement issued by Gen Klaus Naumann of NATO
at the height of its bombing campaign against the civilian infrastructure
of Yugoslavia. Naumann was quoted in the 27 April 1999 issued
of The Washington Post as saying that President Slobadan
Milosevic will be forced to withdraw from Kosovo because "no
responsible head of government would allow his country to be reduced
to rubblè. The Hague tribunal is presently looking into
NATO's targeting policy, as should the House Select Committee
on Defence.
2. Were the tribunal to decide that the
contravention warranted action on its part, Gen. Wesley Clark
is more likely to be indicted than, say, the Foreign Secretary.
Targeting, after all, is a military matter. Nevertheless, it was
Western diplomacy which placed NATO's military leadership in an
invidious position. The House Select Committee on Foreign Affairs
should investigate diplomacy's ill-conceived policy which ineluctably
led to NATO's illegal targeting of civilian targets.
3. You indicated in your letter of 21 December
that our first submission had been circulated to all Members of
the Committee. Has our second submission been so circulated? And
what about this one?
Yours sincerely,
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