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Mon 03 Mar 2009Nato's 'good war' in Kosovo degraded international law
OPINION:Nato’s military action against Slobodan Milosevic is often held up as a triumph of justice over legality. But was it right? asks AIDAN HEHIR.
TEN YEARS ago today Nato, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, launched Operation Allied Force against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Nato claimed to be undertaking a humanitarian intervention, accusing Slobodan Milosevic’s regime of a campaign of aggression and forced displacement against the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, Serbia’s southern province. Military action was a “moral imperative”, according to then US president Bill Clinton.
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