Ancient tradition recognizes that violent resettlements of resisting populations and their extermination often accompany battles for territorial security. The atrocities of rape and pillage that defined the character of Sherman's march did not diminish the Union General's high standing in American history. However, the unprovoked intervention by NATO into the internal affairs of Yugoslavia and Kosovo brings before the world, the menace of a War of Aggression by one state against another. There exists no moral principle and certainly no provision of international law which says that any country may invade any other country to uphold what it represents to be the human rights of that country's citizens. Indeed, the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal following World War II, upheld the principle that The charges in the Indictment that the defendants planned and waged aggressive wars are charges of the utmost gravity.
War is essentially an evil thing.
Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent States alone, but affect the whole world. The UN Charter prohibition against armed intervention by outside States is not subject to any exception even in the cases of large- scale atrocities or acute deprivation, according to the strong weight of opinion by scholars. It must not be a unilateral act. NATOs unilateral action is a flagrant violation of the UN Charter. The saturation bombing of Serbia with high-tech weapons of mass destruction, to resolve a civil war and related humanitarian issues in Kosovo, violates both those principles or proportionality.