"CEEAITCH" (Your Letters, June 11) totally misses the point I was making (May 28) that the attack on Yugoslavia had nothing whatsoever to do with the "inhumane brutality" of the Milosevic regime.

If the British and American governments are to claim the moral high ground as a motive for the bombing of Yugoslavia then why didn't they take the same moral stance when some 800,000 were slaughtered in Rwanda, or when more than one million Palestinians were "ethnically cleansed" and are still living in refugee camps 50 years later. And why don't they take action against the Turks who are murdering Kurds whose fight for a national homeland has gone on for generations?

One could go on with a list as long as your arm of countries where "inhumane brutality" has been inflicted with the support of the American CIA, places such as Chile, Nicaragua, Vietnam etc, etc, etc. "Ceeaitch" agrees that there is a danger to British sovereignty, but there is a much bigger danger in the offing.

That danger is the threat to the peace of Europe and the world posed by the struggle between European capital - represented by the EU - and American capital for the control of the resources of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

The news on Saturday was a forecast of further problems in Europe. "Hungary plans new Balkan break-up", the headline read.

"Hungary has demanded autonomy for ethnic Hungarians living in the ethnically-mixed northern Serbian province of Vojvodina. Speaking in the Hungarian capital Budapest, Vojvodina Hungarian Association chairman Jozsef Kasza demanded that the ethnic Hungarian community in Serbia must have a role in any future government of Yugoslavia."

Almost certainly the imperialist powers have not yet finished their agenda. Montenegro could well be in line for the full treatment in the near future as could other areas where there are sizeable populations of other ethnic origins. It is only necessary to find a group of reactionary nationalists, and then to report alleged atrocities, and the "humanitarian" bandwagon can roll once more.

As I said in my letter: who is next?

P. KAISERMAN

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