From the article of 'Petrel'
No.720 / April 4, 1999
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Kosovo and "The Cops of The World"
The United States Has no Right to Punish Yugo
Finally NATO started airstrikes towards Yugo. In opposition to that, "race purge strategy" by Yugo in Kosovo region is getting worse, at the same time oppression and expulsion of Albanian ethnic group are raging.
It seems that the resolution of the ethnic problem has become more difficult.
This is the region where traditionally race problems have gotten entangled and exploded. Is was called "powder magazine of Balkan" before the World War? Disputes in this region brought about the World War with no doubt.
Today with the dispute between races, large-scale intervention of "big countries" started and antagonism between America and Russia is about to get worse.
Because of the reason that the military intervention by big countries can stop the savage oppression towards Albanians by Miloshevich dictatorship, it was enforced with a slogan of "human rights".
Here is a difficult problem. Workers in the world consider that the dictatorship of Miloshevich is unforgivable. However, on the other hand, they know the real meaning of the intervention by bourgeoisie such as America.
Even though it is highly decorated with good intention or slogan, it is for the benefit and rule of big capitals, and an international "order" for them.
The intention of America or NATO is to behave like a "cop of the world".
However, is America eligible for that? That is the problem!
Although to behave like a cop of the world is to behave as an international "public" power, when did America get such a power? American nation is for American people, but not for the people in the world. It is a "private" power, not a "public"; United nations can be like that though.
America is only behaving as a "public" power through its ability with using "private" power.
Of course even United Nations does not have "public" power. United Nations is powerless (it has no strong military by themselves and no right to take it into actions, etc.), and in fact, it is only a tool of big countries (America and so on).
Big countries such as America don't have listened to the United Nations when they took military actions. They have often ignored that, and they did it this time as well.
Furthermore, America criticized savage actions or "invasions" of Iraq or Yugo, having excuses of "democracy" or "human rights". Then they have punished violently as a "cop of the world". However they have closed their eyes when their "family" nations take the same criminal actions, for instance, "invasion" or savage action by Israel.
If America wants human rights to be thoroughgoing, more than 10 nations should be intervened as well as Yugo, but America doesn't do it. (It is impossible.)
Lastly when it comes to human rights, America should stamp out and solve the domestic common and savage ignorance or denial of "human rights" first. In a sense, America is one of the nations that is the most savage and filled with fear as "burning" and becoming corrupt capital nations. This nation has no right to talk about "human rights", and "democracy" that they use as an excuse in case of intervention would be the same thing.
What on earth is the "democracy" of America like? Isn't it strange and trifling like Clinton's affair issue? What about no rights, political oppression and alienation of common working class?
It is obvious from the beginning that American "moral" is a deception by seeing these facts.
Anyway, it is (it should be) the fight of working class in the world and Yugo, but not the troops of America or NATO that punish the criminal actions by Miloshevich. Military actions by NATO even justify and strengthen Miloshevich's dictatorship.
(Translated by Takizawa)