Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 13, 2009

During the 78-day US-led NATO war on Yugoslavia in 1999, the headquarters of Radio Television Serbia (or RTS) were destroyed by an airstrike. This was a deliberate, premeditated attack on a civilian media enterprise.

RTS was not a military target by any stretch of the definition. Ten people were killed as a result of the bombing.

On April 23 of this year, ten years after that attack, Amnesty International tardily recognized it as a war crime.

No one in NATO?s chain of command was ever prosecuted or sanctioned for this war crime. Incredible as it may seem, the only person held responsible for the death of ten civilian journalists was RTS director Dragouljub Milanovic, who was a target of the attack.

The UN tribunal for Yugoslavia sent him to prison for reckless endangerment of his staff ? a charge which tacitly assumes the criminality of those who presided over that unnecessary and immoral war.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.