Information bulletin of antimilitarist actions
No. 14 * 27 March 1999
Edited by the Antimilitarist Radical Association (ARA),
an association of the Transnational Radical Party.
Russian and English editions.
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THE WAR IN THE EX-YUGOSLAVIA DID NOT BEGIN YESTERDAY, BUT EIGHT
YEARS AGO. IN WAS NOT NATO TO UNLEASH IT, BUT THE NATIONALIST-
BOLSHEVIK REGIME OF MILOSEVIC. THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE
PRIMAKOV GOVERNMENT BETRAYS RUSSIAN NATIONAL INTERESTS
Declaration of Nikolai Khramov, Russian Co-ordinator of the
Radical Party and Secretary of the ARA
Moscow, March 25 1999.
The military action of NATO for compelling to peace in Kosovo
is a compelled step while Milosevic is refusing a peace
agreement and plainly ignoring the whole world community.
Today the appeals to NATO not to begin the war in the Balkans
seem a cynical hypocrisy. The war in the centre of Europe, in
the ex-Yugoslavia, has been already going on for eight years,
since 1991. Hundreds of civilians killed, cities-martyrs
Vukovar, Osijek, Dubrovnik, Sarajevo, the horror of
Srebrenitsa, this Yugoslav Khatyn'... The main culprit of the
tragedy in the ex-Yugoslavia, of all massacres, destruction,
violence and ethnic purges is well known - it is the Serb
President Slobodan Milosevic and his nationalist-communist
regime. In the late eighties - the early nineties it added to
its armoury the idea of the "Great Serbia" and unleashed
several aggressive wars: first in Slovenia and Croatia, then in
Bosnia, now in Kosovo. Eight years ago the West shut its eyes
to the aggression of the Serb nationalist-communist regime
having repeated in details the logic of Munich: those who did
not want to die for Danzig in 1939, shortly after had to die
for Paris and London, for Calais and El Alamein. If in 1991
Milosevic's policy of aggression and hate were decisively
repulsed, two years later the humanity would not have to
institute the Hague Tribunal for the crimes in the ex-
Yugoslavia.
This policy still goes on. In the present-day situation the
NATO military action is a compelled and, probably, an
inevitable step. However, the West prefers the force of weapon
(alas, used too late) instead of using a much more powerful
weapon of Law and of Right: the Hague Tribunal could officially
incriminate the Serb dictator for the war crimes and the crimes
against the humanity. Milosevic should not sit at the table of
negotiations (where someone is trying to bring him back with
help of Tomahawks), but must be in the dock in the Hague.
As far as our country is concerned, recently we can see a
really chauvinist, anti-Western, militarist bacchanalia. Happy
as children are our generals - finally they can plan in their
head-quarters in Arbatskaya square some "adequate measures
against NATO aggressors" - and this is the most evident
manifestation of this hysteria.
It is sad that the majority of the Russian citizens, made fools
of the goebbels-like television, are dying to defend the Serbs,
"our orthodox Slavonic brothers", forgetting at the same time
both our Slavonic Czech and Polish brothers, who joined NATO,
and the orthodox Greeks and Bulgarians. The nationalist, anti-
Western militarist rhetoric of all leading Russian politicians
(with the exception of Yavlinskii and Kozyrev) is really
loathsome.
Another fact is much more dangerous: the actual foreign policy
of the Primakov government (in essence, as nationalist-
communist as the Belgrade regime) is nothing but an open
betrayal of the Russian national interests. These interests do
not mean turning back to the "cold war" and defending all
criminal regimes on Earth, from Saddam to Miloshevich, or being
in opposition to the whole international community, but an
economical, political and national rebirth of Russia as soon as
possible - a free, democratic, responsible country in a united
family of civilised peoples.
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THE RADICAL PARTY SUPPORTS THE NATO OPERATION IN YUGOSLAVIA AND
CLAIMS THE INDICTMENT OF MILOSEVIC
Geneva, March 25. At the 55-th session of the UN Human Rights
Commission the Radical Party supported the NATO operation in
Kosovo and presented an appeal for the democratisation of
Serbia and for the incrimination of the President of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic. Marino
Buzdachin, representative of the Radical Party, declared that
the real causes of the Balkan tragedy were the lack of
democracy and the criminal nature of the nationalist-communist
dictatorship organised like the mafia and widely present in all
power structures in Belgrade. In addition, the RP pointed out
that the immediate incrimination of Slobodan Milosevic by the
International Criminal Court for the crimes against the
humanity was the only effective way to establish the lawful
state in Serbia, Vojvodina, Montenegro and Kosovo.
FOREIGN POLICY OF THE PRIMAKOV GOVERNMENT BETRAYS RUSSIAN
NATIONAL INTERESTS
Moscow, March 25. This was declared by the Russian Co-ordinator
of the Radical Party and Secretary of the ARA Nikolai Khramov.
Khramov supports the NATO military action in Yugoslavia and
resolutely condemns the anti-American and anti-Western hysteria
in Russia. Find Khramov's declaration in the beginning of this
issue.
SPECIAL SITTING OF THE DUMA ON THE SITUATION IN YUGOSLAVIA
Moscow, March 27. In his declaration Nikolai Khramov
characterised the Special Sitting of the State Duma on the
situation in Yugoslavia as "a classical soviet meeting (similar
to that "glorified" by Galich"), an example of "a moving
rallying of fascists, communists and "democrats" on the basis
of the almost forgotten spiteful and demagogic
antiamericanism".
"As for us - radicals, antimilitarists (not pacifists!) -
we side with the victims of the eight years long red-brown
aggression in the Balkans, we side with the NATO and the USA -
as sixty years ago, today it depends on them if the world
manages to stop the man-hating regime. We think that an active,
aggressive non-violence, a real information war against the
totalitarian regimes in Belgrade, Peking, Baghdad (may be,
tomorrow again in Moscow?), the Law and the Right are the most
powerful weapon capable to overthrow the dictatorship regimes
anywhere in the world. However, following Gandhi, today we
reject the cowardly demagogic pacifism of those who prefer an
inaction and a silent complicity to decisive, although violent
actions", - Khramov declared.
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