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WASHINGTON
- June 9 - Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), Member of the International
Relations and Armed Services Committees, says NATO can end the suffering of the
Kosovars if they would focus on peace negotiations and not bombing strategies.
"NATO has effectively closed diplomatic channels that were open when it initiated
its bombing campaign," says Congresswoman McKinney. "NATO's decision to intensify
its bombing campaign now risks producing the same result, the collapse of negotiations."
For two and a half months now, we have seen vivid evidence of mans capacity for
cruelty to his fellow man. And throughout, each side, NATO and Serbia, have engaged
in a media bidding war, each attributing to the other -- for foreign and domestic
political consumption -- the greater aggression, the greatest atrocity, the most
horrific of human dignity.
"I don't know, or much care, who will win these media spin wars. Its clear to
me, that there are no winners, with the exception of the weapons makers. My only
hope is that we will end this bombing and end the suffering of the ethnic Albanians.
We need peace in the Balkans and we need a peace agreement so both sides can save
face," says Congresswoman McKinney.
Our efforts to help the people of Kosovo has left them a nation of refugees, the
infrastructure upon which their dignity and lives have been destroyed. We've become
a military ally of a terrorist organization, the KLA. We've trampled international
law and marginalized the UN, diverted billions from social security and nutrition
programs, set back relations with the nuclear powers of China and Russia to the
cold war era, and effectively destroyed the democratic opposition to Milosevic
in Serbia.
"The only rational course is to suspend the bombing and dedicate ourselves to
negotiation a just peace that can be administered by the United Nations," concludes
Congresswoman McKinney.
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