Taking NATO to Court
Tribunal Reviews Professors' Charges That Alliance Committed War Crimes
By Charles Trueheart
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, January 20, 2000; Page A15
PARIS, Jan. 19As the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia got under way in March and talk of war crimes indictments against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and other Serbian leaders intensified, a loose network of antiwar law professors in Canada, Norway, Greece, Britain and France began plotting another strategy.
Communicating by phone and e-mail, the professors began building a case for war crimes indictments against NATO. By the end of the 78-day air offensive, they believed they had "overwhelming evidence" to demand the criminal prosecution of the leaders of the United States, Britain and other alliance countries, as well as NATO's senior military commanders.
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