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MAY
27, 1999 1:56 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Institute
for Public Accuracy
Sam
Husseini, (202) 347-0020 or (202) 332-5055
David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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WASHINGTON
- May 27 -
WALTER ROCKLER, (202) 942-5789, walter_rockler@aporter.com
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/perspective/
Rockler, a Washington lawyer and a former prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes
Trials, said: "For some to shout 'war criminal' at Milosevic only emphasizes that
those who live in glass houses should be careful about throwing stones. The Nuremberg
Court found that to initiate a war of aggression, as the U.S. has done against
Yugoslavia, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international
crime."
GLEN RANGWALA, 011 44 1223 355956, gr10009@cam.ac.uk,
http://ban.joh.cam.ac.uk/~maicl/
Today, the Movement for the Advancement of International Criminal Law hands a
40-page dossier to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
in the Hague charging Prime Minister Tony Blair and other British officials with
serious violations of international humanitarian law in Yugoslavia. Rangwala,
an international lawyer at Trinity College, Cambridge University, is the main
author of the dossier. Today, he said: "Unlike almost every previous conflict,
the current war in Yugoslavia is marked by the presence of judicial institutions
which can prosecute criminals on every side. There is now overwhelming evidence
that NATO is consciously violating cardinal principles of humanitarian law."
ANN FAGAN GINGER, (510) 848-0599, mcli@igc.org
Professor of Peace Law and Human Rights at San Francisco State University, Ginger
said: "Women and children are always the major victims in war. The U.S. has not
ratified treaties protecting women and children. The bombing in Yugoslavia violates
these treaties, the UN Charter and the most basic international law."
JOHN QUIGLEY, (614) 292-1764, (614) 326-3674, quigley.2@osu.edu
Professor of Law, Ohio State University, and editor of the forthcoming "Genocide
in Cambodia," Quigley said: "The targeting of broadcast stations, electrical facilities
and various factories, all of which have a primarily civilian purpose, is not
legitimate."
ROBERT HAYDEN, (412) 648-7404, (412) 421-1888, rhayden+@pitt.edu
Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University
of Pittsburgh, Hayden said: "When questioned about NATO liability for war crimes,
NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said that 'NATO is the friend of the Tribunal... NATO
countries are those that have provided the finances to set up the Tribunal, we
are among the majority financiers.' Mr. Shea clearly knows that he who pays the
piper calls the tune."
JOHN BURROUGHS, (212) 818-1861, lcnp@aol.com
Executive director of the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, Burroughs said:
"The law of armed conflict mandates that military action bear a proportionate
relationship to the achievement of concrete military advantage. But the bombing
of Yugoslavia is about punishing a society and a regime."
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