OSCE official: US falsified grounds for 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia

[Andrej Tisma]

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February 16, 2004


OSCE official says US falsified grounds for 1999
bombing


SOFIA -- Tuesday - The United States justified the
1999 bombing of Yugoslavia with false claims of
genocide being committed in Kosovo, an OSCE official
and participant in peace talks during the war in the
province said in comments published today.

Bo Pellnas, a member of the OSCE mission in Belgrade,
said there were some 1,200 OSCE observers in Kosovo
who could confirm genocide did not take place, reports
Sofia daily Monitor.

Pellnas said he was certain the US had assisted
secessionist guerrillas in the province since 1998,
and saw them as a future ally in a ground assault on
Belgrade. He said that former US president Bill
Clinton had imposed his policy on the international
community for dealing with Belgrade and Kosovo.