Madeleine Albright Never Paid For Her War Crime

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has died. She was 84 years old.

When, during the ill-fated 1999 Kosovo War, she threatened Serbia with a bombing campaign if they refused to sign a treaty which effectively gave up their sovereignty (which they eventually were forced to do) she broke international law, specifically, The 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

"These are not conventional negotiations. The threat of NATO air strikes remains real." said Albright, on Feb. 14, 1999, to Serbs in Rambouillet, France during treaty negotiations.

However, The Convention on the Law of Treaties, (Article 51) reads:

"A treaty is void if its conclusion has been procured by the threat or use of force in violation of the principles of international law embodied in the Charter of the United Nations." 

And she surely knew this when she made that statement. Yet, she survived until her old age without facing a war crimes tribunal. Sad.

Incidentally, I documented all of this in real time back in 1999 as founder of the Kosovo Fact Project, which actively opposed the NATO intervention in the Balkans on behalf of the Albanian terror group KLA.