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MICHAEL SIMMONS, (215) 241-7188, (215)
386-0533
msimmons@afsc.org
Director
of European Programs for the American Friends Service Committee, Simmons
said: "The conflict in Kosovo should have been anticipated and need not
have happened.... On the one hand, in Iraq, the U.S. is calling for [internal] opposition to Saddam Hussein. But in Yugoslavia, there has been
all kinds of opposition, but the U.S. has treated them with
contempt."
MATT ROTHSCHILD, (608) 257-4626, (608) 238-6624,
mattr@progressive.org , http://www.progressive.org
Editor of The Progressive
magazine, Rothschild said: "What gives the United States and NATO the
right to conduct this warfare? If the United States is going to engage in
so-called humanitarian interventions, it is incumbent upon it to abide both
by U.S. law and international law. It is doing neither here. Slobodan
Milosevic is a brutal and fascistic ruler, and his army has been waging a
merciless war on the Kosovars. And yet I wonder whether force and violence
will solve this problem, or whether it will exacerbate it by emboldening the
Serbs to wage evermore merciless war against Kosovo and to throw everything
they have into the project of ethnic cleansing. Bombings are no sure-fire
solution. And they tend to inflame the most militaristic on both
sides."
DAVID HARTSOUGH, (415) 751-0302, peaceworkers@igc.org
Executive director of the Peaceworkers organization, Hartsough has gone to
Kosovo several times in support of nonviolent resistance and conflict-resolution efforts. Last March, he was detained by Serbian
authorities, who jailed him and later expelled him from the
country.
STEPHEN ZUNES, (415) 422-6981, (831)
425-2975
zunes@usfca.edu , nanlouise@igc.org
An associate professor of politics and chair of the
Peace and Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco, Zunes
has closely followed the Kosovo crisis.
MICHAEL RATNER, (212)
614-6430, (212) 234-3805,
mratner@igc.org
A lawyer with the Center for
Constitutional Rights who has written a number of articles on war powers,
Ratner said on Wednesday afternoon: "Clinton still has not gotten the
authorization he needs for bombing from either Congress or the United
Nations."
MICHAEL KLARE, (413) 559-5563, (413) 584-5666,
mklare@hamphire.edu
Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at
Hampshire College in Massachusetts and author of "Rogue States and
Nuclear Outlaws," Klare said: "The U.S. has essentially replaced
the UN Security Council, and that's disastrous."
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