[kcc-news] KosovaTaskForce:Official Response to "Peace Plan"

[Kosova Task Force, USA]

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KOSOVA TASK FORCE, USA
OFFICIAL STATEMENT REGARDING "PEACE PLAN"
6/6/99


AMERICAN MUSLIMS REACT TO POSSIBILITY OF PEACE IN KOSOVA
Muslim coalition says any peace settlement must be based on justice for 
Kosovars

(WASHINGTON, DC, 6/4/99) - The Kosova Task Force USA,issued the 
following statement on 6/4/99.

"American Muslims, along with all people of conscience, wish to see an end 
to the genocide in Kosova. But any peace settlement must be based on 
justice for the almost two million Kosovars who are the victims of mass 
expulsions, massacres and systematic rape by Serbian forces.

"Few Kosovar refugees will feel safe returning to their homes unless: 

1. All Serbian military and police forces are withdrawn from Kosova, 
2. Minefields and booby-traps set by Serbian forces are removed, 
3. The right of Kosovars to 'keep and bear arms' for self-defense is 
affirmed, 
4. The Kosovar people have the right to freely choose their own form of 
government, 
5. International aid organizations support the returning Kosovars in their 
efforts to rebuild home and businesses destroyed during the Serbian terror 
campaign, 
6. An effective and temporary international peacekeeping force guarantees 
Serbian compliance with the settlement.
7. Slobodan Milosevic and his top commanders are apprehended and tried as 
war criminals. He and his followers have committed crimes against humanity 
in Croatia, Bosnia and now Kosova. These atrocities cannot go unpunished.

"All these items must be seen as steps toward eventual independence for all 
of Kosova. (Any attempt to create a de facto partition must be rejected.) 
The Serbs, through their own actions, have forfeited any claim to rule the 
Kosovar people."


KOSOVA TASK FORCE, USA
730 W. Lake St., Suite 156 
Chicago, IL 60661, USA, 
TEL: 312-829-0087 
FAX: 312-829-0089 
Washington, DC, TEL: 202-393-6210 
E-MAIL: Kosova at justiceforall.org 
URL: http://www.justiceforall.org           

*Kosova Task Force,USA members include: Albanian Islamic Cultural Center, 
American Muslim Council (AMC), Balkan Muslim Association, Council on 
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Council of Islamic Organizations of 
Chicago, Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan, Islamic Circle of 
North America (ICNA), Islamic Council of New England, Islamic Medical 
Association, Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, Islamic Society 
of Greater Houston, Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Majlis Shura 
New York, The Ministry of Imam W.D. Muhammad, Muslim Students Association 
of US and Canada, and The National Community.


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