Canadian Lawyers Sue NATO - Guangzhou (China) Morning Post Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit source - thomas perry http://www.asia1.com.sg/gzbao/mp095/p201.htm Guangzhou (China) Morning Post, June 12 1999 Canadian lawyers sue NATO A GROUP of Canadian lawyers and professors have lodged a complaint with the Hague-based International War Crimes Tribunal, arguing NATO leaders are acting like outlaws by bombing Yugoslavia. The complaint, sent to the tribunal's chief prosecutor, Louise Arbour, accuses 67 heads of state, ministers and NATO officials of violating international humanitarian law in their six-week-old campaign against the Balkan nation. US President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright are among those named in the document. The group of 15 lawyers and professors says NATO leaders have committed crimes such as willful killing, wanton destruction of cities and unnecessary devastation in their war against Yugoslavia. Citing incidents of Yugoslav civilian targets being hit by NATO bombs and missiles, the group says the alliance has violated the United Nations Charter and the Geneva Convention. "Even in a legal war you cannot kill civilians. But this is an illegal war and the NATO leaders are acting like outlaws," said Michael Mandel, professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto. (c) 1999 Guangzhou Morning Post ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nyteeu-06.16.99-04:02:45-22356