- The justification for NATO's attack on
Serbia, now the outright terror bombing of civilians, was the Serbs' rejection
of the "peace accords" drafted at Rambouillet in France in February.
The precise terms were never made public, with the British (and American
- ed.) media generally accepting the word of the Foreign Office that the
West's aim was to bring peace and autonomy to Kosovo. This is the big
lie of what Tony Blair calls a "crusade for civilisation". Anyone
scrutinising the Rambouillet document is left in no doubt that the excuses
given for the subsequent bombing were fabricated. T
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- he peace negotiations were stage-managed
and the Serbs were told: Surrender and be occupied, or don't surrender
and be destroyed. The impossible terms, recently published in full in
Le Monde Diplomatique, but not in Britain (or America - ed.), show that
NATO's aim was the occupation not only of Kosovo, but effectively all
of Yugoslavia. Nothing like this ultimatum has been put to a modern, sovereign
European state. Of all the Hitler and Nazi analogies that have peppered
the West's propaganda, one is never mentioned - Hitler's proposal to Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1938 that he occupy Czechoslovakia because
ethnic Germans there had been "tortured", "forced to flee
the country" and "prevented from realising the right of nations
to self-determination". As a cover for German expansion, Hitler was
laying the basis for a "humanitarian intervention", whose fraudulence
was no greater than that planned by NATO 61 years later as a cover for
its own expansion as the American-led military wing of "globalisation".
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