International law needs restoring

In response to Mr. Goodman's letters, I ask him to check how well informed (or misinformed) he is by answering the following groups of questions.

* How many Serb women, children and men died in war in Bosnia? Or does that not matter, they've deserved it? How many Serb refugees from Bosnia and Croatia are there even today, so many years after the war? Or do they not count?

* What was NATO's declared aim at the beginning of the aggression and why is this aim constantly shifting? What is NATO's objective? What is behind NATO's insistence that only NATO troops be assigned to implement the peace agreement, everything else being negotiable (irrelevant maybe)?

* How many refugees from Kosovo were there in Albania and Macedonia before NATO's aggression? Who profits from the refugee crisis -- Serbs, who are demonized once again because of it, or NATO, who now has acceptable morale grounds to carry on with the aggression indefinitely? Is it, at least, remotely possible that the whole tragedy has a (Western-based) director?

There are actually too many questions, but the simple and most important ones are: Who attacked whom -- Yugoslavia, some NATO member or vice versa -- and under whose mandate? Is Mr. Goodman ready to accept such an arbitrary use of "law of force" against himself as he seems to be when it happens to somebody else? Is it acceptable only against Serbs?

I take this opportunity to thank The Jakarta Post for publishing most of my letters. But compared to colossal propaganda efforts being used against Yugoslavia, my letters are really of no (positive) impact, so I quit.

This is my last letter. The only hope I have for my fellow countrymen is that this reign of terror, this combination of brutal force covered by blinding propaganda, stops as soon as possible, so that we can start rebuilding our country as well as our personal lives. For the rest of the world, I hope that the rule of law in international relations is restored quickly and that aggression like this one on Yugoslavia does not happen again anywhere.

Anybody interested in views that differ from NATO propaganda is welcome to e-mail me at salevic@dnet.net.id and I will respond with a list of web sites on the subject.

BRANIMIR SALEVIC

Jakarta