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To: John Lacelle who wrote (4223)	4/17/1999 11:50:00 AM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

And listen to this crock.. 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. news.bbc.co.uk

To: John Lacelle who wrote (4223)	4/17/1999 12:25:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 17770

150,000 armed Serbians ready to resist NATO invasion. BELGRADE, April 17 (Itar-Tass) - In case of a ground operation in Kosovo the North Atlantic Alliance will run up against the resistance of 150,000 armed Serbians, General Neboisa Pavkovic, commander of the third Yugoslavian army, which is deployed in Kosovo, stated on Saturday. "There are now 150,000 armed men on the territory of Kosovo," the general stated. "If each shot they fire kills at least every third enemy, that will be the price which the aggressor will have to pay for setting foot on our land. We are ready to wage a nation-wide war," he added. The general said that NATO officials were deceiving public opinion and concealing their losses in the operation against Yugoslavia. Only the third Yugoslavian army, he noted, has shot down sixteen NATO aircraft, five helicopters, forty-six cruise missiles, and four unmanned planes since the beginning of the aggression, i.e. March 24. Pavkovic believes that the NATO aggression was of any help to the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army only at the very outset, but soon prompted the Serbian security troops to rout the terrorists. "I am in a position to report that the terroristic forces in Kosovo have been fully wiped out. This is evidenced by the fact that new gangs are now being knocked together with NATO help on the territory of Albania and Macedonia, which are trying to worm their way into Yugoslavia. We are waiting for them here," the general stressed. In his opinion, the only way to settle the Kosovo crisis is to stop the aggression against the Serbians, who are "an exceptionally brave and proud nation". Discontinuation of the NATO aggression, he believes, will be followed up by a political settlement of the crisis by means of talks with representatives of the Kosovo ethnic Albanians.