Announce that war criminals would be pursued. Use the word genocide in describing the tragedy. The human rights activists were met with worse than silence. After a NATO pilot bombed a civilian convoy, General Wesley Clark, the NATO commander, said he had evidence that it had been the Serbs who had shot up these dozens of refugees. Within hours of Clark s statement, NATO acknowledged it was responsible for this killing.
Mistakes do happen in wartime.
NATO s moral authority was not enhanced by this in-panic prevarication. If she had tapped into that goodness prior to the present crisis, she might have paid attention to Kosovo and the nonviolent opposition that was active there. For almost 10 years, Kosovars had peacefully protested and resisted Milosevic. Through that time, Washington and the world community showed little interest in their plight and their challenge to Milosevic. It was not until the shadowy Kosovo Liberation Army emerged about a year ago as Serbian repression increased and supplanted the nonviolent opposition that the Clinton gang decided to focus on Milosevic s misdeeds there.