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Date Posted: 09:46:21 05/02/99 Sun
Author: Pravda
Subject: Re: how meny kids did NATO kill?
In reply to: Tihi 's message, "Re: how meny kids did NATO kill?" on 07:51:07 05/02/99 Sun

> > Killing women and kids is privilege of NATO-otherwise
> > it is called genocide...

As you don't seem to quite understand what Genocide means, the legal definition follows. Please also note that I wasn't actually supporting Nato's action. By your reasoning because Nato bombs Yugoslavia as result of previous ethnic cleansing by the Serbian authorities in Kosovo, that makes it OK for the Serbs to continue killing men, women and kids in Kosovo? Before you say Nato caused the refugee problem, 250,000 Kosovo Albanians had left because of Serbian brutality prior to Nato's air campaign according to the International Red Cross. None of the 350,000+ current refugees claims to be running from Nato and asks Nato to increase its action in Kosovo. Please remember who is responsible for this war. It's Milosevic who stripped Kosovo of it's autonomy in 1989 and it was Milosevic who broke his own promises to the UN which he made in October 98. He was fully aware of the consequences of breaking those promises. What follows is International Law. Something else to bear in mind, Nato's charter has nothing to do with International Law. Because they chose to ignore their own charter does not make their actions unlawful in respect to International Law.


CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE

Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948.


Article 1. The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed
in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law
which they undertake to prevent and to punish.


Art. 2. In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts
committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to
bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.


Art. 3. The following acts shall be punishable:

(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.


Art. 4. Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in
Article 3 shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible
rulers, public officials or private individuals.


Art. 5. The Contracting Parties undertake to enact, in accordance with
their respective Constitutions, the necessary legislation to give effect to
the provisions of the present Convention and, in particular, to provide
effective penalties for persons guilty of genocide or any of the other acts
enumerated in Article 3.

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