of thousands of men, women and children. It inflicted catastrophic economic damage from which Yugoslavia will take years to recover. So one has to ask oneself whether such clear and convincing proof has been shown to exist. There are several reasons to doubt it. Reasons for doubting the moral justification for the NATO intervention (a) NATO force was used exclusively against the Serbs whereas it is quite clear from contemporaneous official reports that the ethnic Albanians were at least as much to blame for the prevailing hostilities as the Serbs. Thus the Report from the Secretary General of the United Nations dated 17 March 1999 covering the period 1 January to 17 March 1999 (7 days before the start of the air attacks) showed that the resumption and continuation of hostilities in this period was initiated by the KLA and not by the Serbs. Thus the Report accepted the statement of the OSCE that "the current security environment in Kosovo is characterized by the disproportionate use of force, including mortar and tank fire, by the Yugoslav authorities in response to persistent attacks and provocations by the Kosov o Albanian paramilitaries." These "persistent attacks and provocations" included ambushes and killings of Serb soldiers police and other officials. Furthermore, the displacements of the Serbs in this period was just as great in relation to their population as that of the ethnic Albanians. It included in their case many thousands of displacements of Serbs from Kosovo. This was not the case in respect