NOBEL laureate Harold Pinter proves KOSOVO is SERBIA!

http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/may1999/pint-m07.shtml

See the whole artiocle written by the NOBEL laureate Harold Pinter at that link.

This is a part of it:
(I can't include it all because this text box has limited space)

Playwright Harold Pinter, an outspoken opponent of NATO's war against Serbia, presented a coherent and well-argued case opposing the military action on BBC 2 television last Tuesday evening. Using news footage and interviews specially recorded for the programme, Pinter showed how the media are being manipulated, and that the humanitarian justification for the war is false.

In a powerful condemnation of the war, Pinter described the NATO onslaught against Serbia as "a bandit action, committed with no serious consideration of the consequences, ill-judged, ill-thought, miscalculated, an act of deplorable machismo".

Pinter was shown questioning British Defence Minister George Robertson at a news conference. The playwright, citing the Geneva Convention outlawing military attacks on civilian targets, demanded to know how the bombing of a Serbian TV station could be described as anything other than murder. "Mr. Pinter has obviously got a new occupation now but I know his views," was the arrogant reply from Robertson. He justified the bombing by claiming that such targets were the "brains behind the brutality", and "part and parcel of the apparatus that is driving ethnic genocide".

Such claims--which have been used repeatedly to justify whatever horrors NATO perpetrates--were challenged in the programme. Former Labour Foreign Secretary Dennis Healey rejected the idea that the expulsion of the Kosovar Albanians was the same as genocide. He pointed out that NATO's actions were contrary to the United Nations charter, which Britain had signed. NATO was bombing a fellow UN member, without UN authority.

Jake Lynch of Sky News explained how the news media are being manipulated to support the aggressive war drive. When NATO bombed a refugee convoy there was a delay of several days before the cockpit video, normally shown at the next daily press conference, was released to the media. This was to enable NATO to cause the maximum confusion, he explained. First NATO claimed there had been two separate incidents. The next day this was amended to one incident, and then later a US Brigadier General cited the figure of two again.

Pinter gave a detailed account of the bombing of the Serbian television station. He showed the letter in which NATO spokesman Jamie Shea had assured the International Federation of Journalists only days before the bombing that the television station would not be attacked. Philip Knightley, author of The First Casualty--History of Propaganda, explained why the TV station was targeted: "NATO didn't want it revealed that it had bombed a civilian convoy and left to itself would never have revealed it until the war was over. But they were forced to admit to the bombing of the civilian convoy because Serbian TV said that it had happened, then took Western reporters in a bus to show them the results of it."

Turning to the refugee crisis Pinter showed that there is a direct correlation between the number of refugees and the amount of popular support for NATO bombing. He derided the talk of moral authority, demanding to know "who bestowed it on the NATO countries?... Bombs and power--that's your moral authority." The moral position of the US was highly ambiguous, he went on. "When human rights groups discovered US jets used by the Turkish airforce to bomb Kurdish villages within its own territory the Clinton administration found ways to evade laws requiring suspension of arms deliveries. 1.4 million Kurds fled Turkish repression from 1990 to 1994. Yet Turkey is invited to the top of the table at NATO's birthday party."

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[TruthSAYER17]

Turning to the refugee crisis Pinter showed there is a direct correlation between the number of refugees and the amount of popular support for NATO bombing.When human rights groups discovered US jets used by the Turkish airforce to bomb Kurdish villages within its own territory the Clinton administration found ways to evade laws requiring suspension of arms deliveries. 1.4million Kurds fled Turkish repression from1990 to1994.Yet Turkey is invited to the top of the table at NATO's birthday party

[aviomaster]

FUCK you USA .. ROT in HELL,, SERBIAN people wait for WW-III for a revenge on this BOMBINGS and destruction of SERBIAN state and people ... GOD BLESS RUSSIA ... SERBIAN people will fight with you to the END to kill and destroy NWO ... and assholes from BRITAIN and USA ,... FUCK YOU USA we do not need your demnocracy .,..

[timefor1244]

honest and truely a great man

god bless

[Rototornik]

@terratrema because these muslims started attacking serbs in bosnia. milosevic just ordered his army to help and arm bosnian serbs-which are now merely 50% of bosnian population. im not defending him, i am saying that genocide on muslims was a stupid way to avenge fallen serbs, which suffered a genocide already.

nato did NOT intervene because of this. they just wanted a base in serbia-and slobodan declined. if he accepted they would have let him finish the dirty job. polititcs is so ugly...

[aviomaster]

ikobard -- People who killed 1.3 million Iraqis and created 6 million refugees Iraq is place closest to Hell - for what LIES LIES LIES , Weapons of Mass Destruction Bullshit , SERBIA defended it's theritorial integity in Kosovo Nothing else nothing more.

BUT When USA ass licker Georgia bombs and kill separatists in Ossetia and Abhazia that is OK than. When Turkey kills Kurds and even went to IRAQ to kill Kurds that is OK FUCK THE USA ROT IN HELL

[ikobard]

@aviomaster what about canada? am i safe?

[1shpendi]

pinter is a spektakular MORON

[23discordians]

@terratrema

Do you have sources for this demostrable genocide, remember that the sources should be for the numbers killed before the NATO bombing began, not after, and I mean sources, not newsapaper articles. I have found no evidence for genocide whatsoever, the sources I have read point towards the KLA having killed more people than the Yugoslav authorities up untill Racak. Before you ask, my source for this is the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence minutes from 24th March 1999.

[terratrema]

I could never understand Pinter's position on this.

Slobodan Milošević's ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims had been taking place for years. Europe's Muslim minority was beginning to think that the lack of action taken to end these crimes was due to Islamophobia. They may have been right.

NATO finally intervened to put a stop to this, and many fashionable Western lefties complained.

I really just don't understand it. How can anyone say that no one has the right to end a demonstrable genocide?

[zupaaaflyyy]

This video has nothing to do with the title!! SUUUUCCCK AAASSSSSSSS!!!

[aviomaster]

-- WELL Albanians have one state ,,, called Albania if they did not like living in Serbia they should get out and go to their heaven ALBANIA ...

IS this so hard to understand ,,,

Kosovo is Serbia ,.,,