Kosovo War
It appears that Yugoslavia may submit to NATO and the Kosovar Albanians may return to their homes. This is good, but it far from satisfactory. If Hitler, facing defeat in 1945, had agreed to simply withdraw his armies from the countries he’d occupied and devastated, it would not have been enough. Only the Nuremberg trials could give catharsis and closure to the survivors, create a memorial to the victims, provide an undeniable public record of the atrocities and separate perpetrators from bystanders.
There will be no justice in the Balkans until Slobodan Milosevic--as well as Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic and all the other indicted torturers and murderers--are brought before the International War Crimes Tribunal.
PAUL KUJAWSKY, Studio City
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This winter when tens of thousands of Yugoslavs die due to starvation, cold and disease, who will have committed the greater war crime--Milosevic or NATO?
Ask the Greek people, our NATO allies; they will tell you.
JERRY MAZENKO, Garden Grove
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