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>The Last Straw: Bill Designed to Kill Serb Children (by Mary Mostert)
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>REDDING, CA, July 16 -
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>“In 1996, I was a very active supporter of the Bob Dole for President,
>although I thought he was really wrong in some of his statements about the
>Bosnian war at the time.
>
>As I delved into the problems, reading material from both Albanian and Serb
>sources, I kept running into articles which claimed that my hero, Bob Dole,
>was a ‘lobbyist’ for the Albanians. I dismissed the charge as
>unsubstantiated and unlikely. Bob Dole, I believed sincerely, would not be
>involved with a terrorist group like the KLA which, it appeared quite early
>on, to be financed in large measure by the sale of heroin. Illyria, an
>Albanian publication, wrote admiringly of Bob Dole in an editorial on March
>4, 1999:
>
>At the start of this decade, one man, then a powerful senator, stood on the
>steps of the Capitol and vowed to fight for the rights of the Albanians in
>Kosovo. Through the loud cheers of thousands of demonstrators, Bob Dole
>promised he would visit Kosovo and see at first hand the brutality of the
>Serb regime, which aimed at the ethnic cleansing of the Albanian
>population. Serb dictator Slobodan Milosevic, who later would win himself
>the deserved nickname of the Butcher of the Balkans, had just launched a
>vicious attack on the Albanian people and their institutions. The move
>marked the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia. […]
>
>President Clinton ASKED Bob Dole to try to persuade the Albanians ‘that
>U.S. intentions are good and that the White House is serious about the
>issue. Not that the Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is not a
>respected U.S. official among the Albanians (her dedication on the issue is
>to be admired), but Bob Dole brings to Kosovo a familiar face -- the face
>of a man who has fought for their rights in the past and continues to do
>so.’ (‘Albanian Telegraphic Agency’ http://www.telpress.it/ata/ata.htm)
>
>What I did not know until the last few days was just how much campaign
>money had gone into Bob Dole's, and other congressional leaders', campaigns
>from the Albanian lobby. But, what has been the final straw for me was the
>passage of S 1234 Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related
>Programs Appropriations Act, 2000 which was passed 97-2 on June 30, 1999.
>Bob Smith, who just this week left the Republican party over matters of
>principle, and Robert Byrd were the only Senators to vote against the bill.
>
>Tucked away in the depths of the bill, totally undiscussed on the Senate
>Floor, is a provision which is clearly intended to kill as many Serb
>children this winter as possible. And 97 American Senators, Democrats and
>Republicans, voted in favor of it.
>
>I called the office of a Republican senator who shall be temporarily
>nameless, and inquired if the Senator knew of a provision recently voted on
>which, according to an e-mail I received, ‘names Yugoslavia a 'terrorist
>state'. The aide, who had a Croatian name, said without hesitation that I
>was referring to S 1234, Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related
>Programs Appropriations Act, 2000, section 525 of the bill which did indeed
>list Yugoslavia as a terrorist state, along with Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North
>Korea, Iran, Sudan, or Syria. […] (also see S99-113, “Peace” 7, Item 3,
>June 22).
>
>I also found, reading the bill, that Section 578 of S 1234 called for
>draconian sanctions against Yugoslavia… which are guaranteed to kill
>hundreds of thousands of people in a nation which is now about 90%
>unemployed because American bombers destroyed most of its means of
>production, will remain in place, according to the bill, until the
>President ‘certifies’ that:
>
>1. The representatives of the successor states to the Socialist Federal
>Republic of Yugoslavia have successfully negotiated the division of assets
>and liabilities and all other succession issues following the dissolution
>of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia;
>
>2. The government of Serbia-Montenegro is fully complying with its
>obligations as a signatory to the General Framework Agreement for Peace in
>Bosnia and Herzegovina;
>
>3. The government of Serbia-Montenegro is fully cooperating with and
>providing unrestricted access to the International Criminal Tribunal for
>the former Yugoslavia, including surrendering persons indicted for war
>crimes who are within the jurisdiction of the territory of
>Serbia-Montenegro, and with the investigations concerning the commission of
>war crimes and crimes against humanity in Kosovo;
>
>4.The government of Serbia-Montenegro is implementing internal democratic
>reforms;
>
>5. Serbian, Serbian-Montenegrin federal governmental officials, and
>representatives of the ethnic Albanian community in Kosovo have agreed on,
>signed, and begun implementation of a negotiated settlement on the future
>status of Kosovo.
>
>In effect these provisions destroy totally the G-8 agreement that Milosevic
>and the NATO nations signed in early June. It provides for the Yugoslavia's
>assets to be totally under the control of NATO - since they are the ones
>occupying Kosovo, and apparently intend to occupy the rest of Yugoslavia,
>which is exactly what the Rambouillet agreement required of Milosevic -
>uncontrolled access not only to Kosovo, but ALL of Yugoslavia by NATO
>troops.
>
>Recently in an interview on 60 minutes, Leslie Stahl asked Madeleine
>Albright: ‘I understand that 500,000 Iraqi children have died due to our
>sanctions...was it worth it?’ Albright replied, ‘It was worth it.’
>
>I asked the Senator's aide almost exactly the same question: ‘This will
>cause hundreds of thousands of Serb and other children in Yugoslavia to
>die, just like in Iraq!’ I said. ‘Surely the Senator is not approving
>that?’ The aide said, ‘That's what they deserve for choosing a man like
>Milosevic.’
>
>I was dumbfounded. The children have chosen NO ONE! Apparently this whole
>war IS about money - just as many Serbs have been trying to tell me for
>weeks - but I didn't believe it. Now I find that the Senate of the United
>States has passed an appropriations bill that spells it out in detail - and
>the threat is in effect: Give up your assets to us or we kill your
>children. […]
>
>What will this mean on the ground in Yugoslavia? (William) Doric noted,
>‘As a 'terrorist state', there will be no travel in or out of Yugoslavia.
>Mail will be stopped and all of us will be subject to government
>restrictions on communications with Serbia. Speaking out will carry a price
>that might be considered subversion. There will be no reconstruction by any
>nation and no medical assistance and tens of thousands of Serbs will die
>right before our eyes - just like 1.8 million Iraqi people have died in the
>last 5 years. The stupidity of this bill is that without rebuilding Serbia,
>where 60% of Europe's trade flows down the Danube River, the trade will
>permanently stop. Serbia's neighbors will be punished right along with the
>Serbs. Mitch McConnell has just shown how much hate can drive a person to
>immoral conduct and hate speech.’
>
>Can anything be done about it? It is not yet law. Call, write, telephone
>and fax your representative in Congress! (see
>http://originalsources.com/PLobby/ContactCongress.shtml) Write letters, or
>send this article, to your local newspaper. For national news sources, go
>to: http://originalsources.com/PLobby/ContactMedia.shtml.
>
>Back in 1962, I was one of 52 American women who flew to Geneva,
>Switzerland in an effort to stop the testing of nuclear bombs in the
>atmosphere because, as a young mother of four little children, I was
>concerned about the sharp increase in child cancer and leukemia from
>cancer-causing Strontium 90 that children all over the world were drinking
>along with their milk. Although the Senate was almost solidly behind the
>nuclear testing, after six months of work by a small group of women,
>organized in a loose confederation called ‘Women's Strike for Peace’ the
>testing of bombs in the atmosphere was stopped - by a vote of 94-6 in the
>Senate - saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of children worldwide.
>
>It's time for those who care about the children - whether they be women or
>men - to speak up and demand a halt to US policies which are killing
>children. We can stop this madness.”
>
>Mary Mostert, Redding, California (e-mail: [log in to unmask])
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Centre for Rural Economy
Department of Agricultural Economics and Food Marketing
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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