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Serbs warned: War criminals
face action
Doug Henderson: Serb actions have caused outrage
UK Armed Forces Minister Doug Henderson has warned
Serbian military leaders they will be brought to justice for
war crimes.
His comments came as Nato said
reports from refugees who have fled
Kosovo suggest that more than
3,000 Kosovo Albanians have been
murdered by Serb security forces in
the last three weeks.
During the daily Nato briefing,
Brigadier General Giusseppe Marani
showed aerial photographs of a site
in Kosovo, near the village of Izbica,
which he said was a mass grave.
General Marani said the site looked as if it could contain
the bodies of up to 150 Kosovo Albanians.
Shame and disgrace
Mr Henderson told a Ministry of Defence briefing: "The
guilty men in Kosovo will be brought to justice."
Detailed evidence had already been given by fleeing
refugees of "systematic and repeated rape by Serbian
police and soldiers", the massacre of around 60 elderly
men and the forcible use of Kosovo Albanians as human
shields to protect Serb anti-aircraft emplacements from
air strikes, he said.
The Serb action had caused "outrage and revulsion
throughout the civilised world".
Mr Henderson went on: "The
young men who are
committing war crimes on
behalf of the Milosevic regime
should think again.
"They should think about how
long the Milosevic regime will
last, about what will succeed
the Milosevic regime.
"They should think about the
shame and disgrace that
they will feel in their 50s and
60s and what their grandchildren will think of a
grandfather indicted for war crimes and spending his last
years in prison.
"These young men should think again
today, their generals should think
again, and so should President
Milosevic."
Since it was established in 1993, the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugolsvia
(ICTY) in The Hague had indicted 84 people for war
crimes in Bosnia and Croatia, of whom 26 were in
custody and seven had already been found guilty.
The Chief of the UK Defence
staff, General Sir Charles
Guthrie, said on Friday that
mass graves were
"continually" being
discovered, with evidence
from refugees and
surveillance.
He said: "There are reports that thousands of young men
have been murdered."
There were stories from refugees of whole villages being
massacred while other reports suggested that 50 men
were shot dead in one incident, the general said.
However, Labour MP Tam
Dalyell said talk of war
crimes charges was
counter-productive as it
would only strengthen the
determination of the Serbs.
"It is unreal for Blair and
other ministers to prattle on
about arraigning President
Milosevic and many other
Serbs for war crimes," he
said.
"If you knew that you were going to be had up as a war
criminal, wouldn't it make you all the more determined to
fight to the death, the more so because you knew that
you could not be captured by ground troops?
"This is precisely what they will do."
Meanwhile, UK Foreign Office
Minister Tony Lloyd has again ruled
out sending in ground troops in an
opposed invasion into Kosovo -
despite hints of a shift in policy on
Friday by Defence Secretary George Robertson, who is
in the US for talks.
Bombing protest
He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "The prime
minister and all government ministers in Britain have
been saying throughout the whole of this campaign that
this is an air-based campaign."
Three women entered the Royal Air Force base at
Fairford in Gloucestershire on Friday night to stage a
protest against Nato's bombing campaign.
The group used a ladder to get over the perimeter fence
and then attached a banner daubed with slogans on an
American B52 bomber.
The women were escorted from the base after about 20
minutes and have not been charged.
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