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1 Signed by Professors Richard Falk, Princeton University; Johan Galtung, University of Hawaii and Director, TRANSCEND; Carl Jacobsen, Carleton University and Director, Eurasian Security Studies ORU; Jan Oeberg, Director, TFF, and Alex Schiberras Trigona, former Foreign Minister of Malta; distributed by and available from TRANSCEND and signatories; first published in Fædrelandsvennen, Kristiansand, Norway, 7 July 1995.

2 Thus outrage at the deprivations of 50,000 Kosovar refugees appeared rooted in humanist concern and impulse; yet the glaring lack of concern for or aid to the often equally destitute 527,000 Serb refugees from Bosnia and Croatia (figure provided by the UN; excludes Serb refugees sheltered in Srpska), jarred assertions of moral purpose. See The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 10 November 1998.

3 CBC Newsworld, 29 September 1998. Subsequent information, provided by The Times (London), 30 September 1998, did indicate Serb (though not necessarily police) culpability - and vengeful cause: the KLA had murdered seven local Serb policemen the night before the killings.

4 The New York Times, 30 September 1998.

5 The case against Bin Laden, once ally, now nemesis, rang true; that against Sudan less so: Western ambassadors and specialists visiting the bombed-out plant found no evidence.

6 See e.g. The Times, 28 September 1998.

7 The Times, 23 September 1998.

8 See e.g. Ottawa Citizen, 7 October 1998: `Serb forces have been supplied with new warheads, fuses and sensors for their mobile Sam 6 missiles... converted it into a faster system with an extended range', reprinted from The Daily Telegraph, with files from The Times and the Associated Press. See also The New York Times, 7 October 1998, on the visit of Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev to Belgrade; and CBC Newsworld, same date, on policy positions embraced by Russian government and Duma leaders.

9 See sources in note 8; see also The New York Times, 10 October 1998.