Date: 13 Apr 1999 01:17:00 +0200
From: I-AFD_2-AT-anarch.free.de (Nico MYOWNA)
Subject: Rambouillet-draft agreement (was Germany and the KLA)



Hi all,

This are some paragraphs from the "agreement" of Rambouillet:
(FRY = Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro])

"At all entry and exit points to/from the FRY, NATO personnel shall be  
permitted to enter/exit the FRY on production of a national identification  
(ID) card. NATO personnel shall carry identification which they may be  
requested to produce for the authorities in the FRY, but operations,  
training, and movement shall not be allowed to be impeded or delayed by  
such requests.(...) NATO shall be immune from all legal process, whether  
civil, administrative, or criminal. NATO personnel, under all  
circumstances and at all times, shall be immune from the Parties'  
jurisdiction in respect of any civil, administrative, criminal, or  
disciplinary offenses which may be committed by them in the FRY. (...)  
NATO personnel shall be immune from any form of arrest, investigation, or  
detention by the authorities in the FRY. NATO personnel erroneously
arrested or detained shall immediately be turned over to NATO authorities.
NATO personnel shall enjoy, together with their vehicles, vessels,  
aircraft, and equipment, free and unrestricted passage and unimpeded  
access throughout the FRY including associated airspace and territorial  
waters. This shall include, but not be limited to, the right of bivouac,  
maneuver, billet, and utilization of any areas or facilities as required  
for support, training, and operations. (...) The authorities in the FRY  
shall facilitate, on a priority basis and with all appropriate means, all  
movement of personnel, vehicles, vessels, aircraft, equipment, or  
supplies, through or in the airspace, ports, airports, or roads used. No
charges may be assessed against NATO for air navigation, landing, or takeoff
of aircraft, whether government-owned or chartered. Similarly, no duties,  
dues, tolls or charges may be assessed against NATO ships, whether  
government-owned or chartered, for the mere entry and exit of ports.  
Vehicles, vessels, and aircraft used in support of the operations shall  
not be subject to licensing or registration requirements, nor commercial  
insurance. (...) NATO shall be allowed to contract directly for the  
acquisition of goods, services, and construction from any source within  
and outside the FRY."

I quot this to support my "clumsy and incoherent" (in the words of Dave  
Hayman) argumentation. This agreement show:" NATO is immune from all legal  
process wether civil, administrativ or legal. The NATO enjoy free access  
throughout the whole FRY and the right to billet and utilization of any  
areas or facilities in the whole FRY." No state of souveranity acept a  
dictation *before* a lost war. The NATO shall be here a state of souvera-  
nity inside the federal state of Yugoslavia -- in fact a occupation army  
outside of every federal law of Yugoslavia.

At the first time since the start of war the NATO today say, that "they  
dosn't whant the leading position in the international military force, who  
should supervise the return of the refugees and the implementation of the  
Rambouillet-agreement", german media reported. This show that the diplo- 
macy have in fact full scope and wasn't at a point of 'ultima ratio' with- 
in the end of Rambouillet.

Support NATO and you run the risk of strengthening a hegemonic alliance  
already stronger than any the world has ever seen. Oppose NATO and we ab- 
andon the only abvious and effective response the gravest treat to human  
life in europe since 1950 (not WW II, Roger! Doesn't forget the 2 500 000  
german victims in Polen and Czechslovakia 1948/49). So we can support in  
realpolitic the UN for an solution run by international law and condemn  
the NATO as criminal with their war of agression without a resulution by  
the UN court. And we can for example proclaim to build up voluntary para- 
military forces like the international brigades in Spain 1936/37, who are  
independent from any state try to support and to defend the people in con- 
sistence to the international law in a region of crisis against genocide,  
carnages and ethnic cleansing (as a NGO). Or we try to sabbotage the ca-  
pitalist war maschine in ewery country of this world by demonstrations,  
desertation and strikes against the production of weapons for war....

I doesn't understand Carp & Bart: Both speak about a genocide at the Koso- 
vo. But one year ago have Carp wrote:"'10%' is called 'decimation'. We  
over here usually reserve that word [genocide] for 50% and more." There  
have been before the war 1,96 Mill. inhabitants at the Kosovo, 87% ethnic  
Albanians, 8% ethnic Serbs, 4,5% ethnic Bosnians and 1,5% ethnic Turks.  
The NATO say that now are 960 000 ethnic Albanians are out. 1 705 200  
ethnic Albanians have lived there. More than 50% are still alive at the  
refugee camps. More than 400 000 should be still alive in the woods of the  
Kosovo. A genocide? Or something, what we name as 'decimation'?

No, carp, I doesn't support the Yugoslavian authorities: As anarchists we  
acept the inalienable human dignity of every person to fulfill themself in  
their own way of living. Therefore we have to condemn every person or orga- 
nisation, who deny an other person his/her inalienable human dignity  
through ethnic cleansing, murdering and insulting. We have to condemn the  
operation "horseshoe" by the Yugoslavian army and their paramilitary  
groups as well as the carnage against ethnic Serbs by the KLA. We cannot  
condemn the Yugoslavian army and ther allies and oversee the crime of the  
KLA, because this group seems to be "on our side", if we respect our claim  
of egality. And neither the Yugoslavian/serbian army and their allies nor  
the KLA are identical with the needs and wishes of the serbian or albanian  
population in this region.

Nico

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