MASSACRE IN MEJA : murder by Serbs in Kosovo

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Wed May 12 09:04:35 PDT 1999


From brettk at unica-usa.com Wed May 12 08:45:46 1999

In order for intervention in the internal affairs of another

nation to be jusfified, one or both of the following criteria

must be met:

[ ... ]

2) genocide is taking place

I don't think this has a precedent in the 20th century, and apparently it's the "interesting" part of the World Court proceedings that Yugoslavia is bringing against NATO. One analysis I read stated that various legal/proceedural tactics would be used to derail Yugoslavia's claims (out of juristiction, etc.), but that if that failed, this is the defense that would be used -- for the first time.

Brett: you seem to have come to this conclusion rather recently; was there something in particular that brought you to this conclusion? Because it doesn't seem to be in anybody's vocabulary; NATO just came to that conclusion recently as well.

/jordan



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