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Kosovo War: Conflict
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One minor sign of progress is that the Kosovo conflict was the first war after which a formal environmental assessment was undertaken. UNEP assembled an international team of scientists to study the damage and WWF International, the conservation organisation, commissioned an expert rapid assessment. The UNEP study is unlikely to be released until the middle or end of October. The WWF findings were presented to the public in September. Ursula Stephan, a German academic and specialist in assessing the impact of chemical industry accidents and a member of the WWF expert group, said that the damage at Pancevo was "unprecedented." Analysis of samples collected by Stephan and fellow scientists found levels of toxic contaminants in excess of international limits requiring a clean up. The WWF findings have been widely circulated to government agencies, international funders, and scientists.
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This kind of media assault is unprecedented since the spring of 1999, and indeed represents the most serious rhetorical and diplomatic escalation of the Kosovo crisis since the war itself. It is as if the second war for Kosovo is already underway, launched by the very same people behind the first. This time, the bombs and bullets are editorials and polls; but the conflict will be no less deadly.
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Despite intense media coverage of the war, the environment remained a largely unheralded victim of the NATO bombing campaign in the Kosovo conflict. The human and ecological impact of releasing large amounts of toxic chemicals during such conflicts is too high to accept. The environment must be respected in wartime as well as in peacetime.
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[H]e ... called "political" the Belgrade trials of western NATO leaders for war crimes, following the NATO bombing campaign in the Kosovo conflict. Those trials were held before the Kostunica government came to power.
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