(All actions are done in the name of those who go to them not of OSAN as a whole)

Where and When?:
Tuesday 27th October: BORDERS and the Oxford UNION

Demonstration Meets Balliol Lodge 5pm
- book signing in Borders at 6 pm (demonstrations starts earlier)
- Then on to the Union at 8.00 pm

Bring Pots and Pans, Banners, Drums and loads of difficult questions.

Those of you in the Union go in and make sure that she is challenged with critical questions.

Why oppose Madeleine Albright?:

IRAQ

a.. In a Television interview in 1996, Albright responded to a question about half a million children dying in Iraq due to US led sanctions: "We think the price is worth it."
b.. In 1998, Albright was at her jingoist best in the context of Iraq: "If we have to use force, it is because we are America! We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall, and we see further into the future."

THE BALKANS

a.. Convinced that she could bomb Milosevic into signing her Rambouillet agreement, Albright strongly made the case for aerial bombings in Kosovo. So blinkered was her vision that all warnings by the CIA about Serbian retaliations were ignored. As a US report later stated, the Serb focus before March 1999 was on rooting out the KLA, not on genocide, and that the Serbs turned to "ethnic cleansing" of Kosovo Albanians in general only after the beginning of the bombing.
b.. Albright's own spokesman James Rubin was forced to admit about Kosovo "Over 580,000 people have been either internally displaced or forced to flee.''
c.. When Colin Powell argued that the U.S. should not commit military forces to Bosnia until there was a clear political objective, Albright presented her logically flawless reply: "What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?"

RWANDA

a.. After US failure to act to prevent genocide in Rwanda in 1994, Albright ensured that no one else upstaged the US; as UN ambassador, she stalled the deployment of further UN troupes in Rwanda. She threatened to veto any proposal that would increase UNAMIR forces in the troubled region, thereby ensuring UN failure to act under the 1948 Convention Against Genocide. Around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus are killed.

UNITED NATIONS

a.. On more than one occasion while U.N. ambassador, Albright yelled at U.N. Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali that he must not publish the report about Israel's bombing of the U.N.-run refugee camp in Qana, Lebanon, in April 1996, which killed more than 100 refugees. The U.N. report said that the attack was not a mistake, as Israel claimed. Albright warned the Secretary-General that if the report came out, the U.S. would veto him for
his second term. The report came out, and so did Boutros Boutros-Ghali. (Despite the unanimous support of all 14 other members of the security council)