At 17:45 (ET) on May 7, NATO brazenly fired 3 missiles from different angles to attack the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Yugoslavia, which KILLED 3 Chinese journalists and injured more than 20. The building of the embassy was seriously damaged.

Chinese Embassy is a representation of china, NATO's bombing at the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of China, United Nations Charter, and international laws.

We, Chinese students and scholars, feel extremely astonished and furious at such outrage committed by NATO in the name of peace and human rights. Without comprehensive, fair investigation and convincing explanation, apologies alone are not enough.

1) Will you use a 5-year-old map for travelling? But NATO told us that they used that old map to select bombing targets. Where were those advanced military expertise and technologies hiding?
2) Do you believe that they really didn't know where the exact location of Chinese Embassy is? As a matter of fact, the western countries' military attaches were often invited to the embassy.
3) Three U.S. soldiers' lives are important. How about those of the three Chinese journalists?

NATO must conduct comprehensive and fair investigation on the bombing of Chinese Embassy, and reveal the investigation results to the international community ASAP!

The newlyweds, Xu Xinghu and Zhu Ying, two young journalists, were killed by NATO.

Shao Yunhuan Bombed Chinese Embassy

Hand by hand, pray for life, pray for peace

(Up) Chinese journalists killed in the bombing on May 8 (from top to bottom): Xu Xinghu, reporter of Guanming Daily, and his one-year married wife, Zhu Ying; Shao Yunhuan, reporter at Xinhua News Agency.
(http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/199905/09/newfiles/wzb 990509001021 3.html)

(Left) Zhu Ying's mournful father is heart-broken when facing the dead body of his lovely daughter. But his daughter---a future mother---was killed just one day before the Mother's day.
(http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9905/1O/kosovo.china.02/index.html)
Hand by hand, pray for life, pray for peace

(Down) The Building of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade stands severely damaged after being hit by several NATO missiles on last Friday night. The following pictures are two sides of the building. You also can go to http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9905/10/kosovo.01/index.html for another view of the debris.

Hand by hand, pray for life, pray peace

FACTS

Three Chinese died and more than 20 were injured after NATO fired bombs on the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia around midnight last Friday. Among the dead were two Chinese journalists. - ABC News. Reportedly around 60 people were at the embassy at the moment of the attack. - Reuters. Eyewitnesses said three bombs hit the embassy building from different directions.--China Daily

China demanded an official apology from NATO for bombing its Belgrade Embassy and severe punishment for those responsible. It also called for a complete investigation and a public announcement of the results. Reuters (May 11 )

"Calm returned to the streets of China on Tuesday ... Beijing's diplomatic district was calm with no sign of demonstrators who had besieged the U.S. and British embassies for three days to protest against the attack which killed three Chinese journalists and injured more than 20 on Friday." - Reuters (May 11)

U.S. officials and NATO said the attack on the Chinese Embassy was "a mistake" based on "faulty information" that the (Chinese embassy) building was the headquarters for the Yugoslav arms agency. - Reuters (May 11)

The Chinese Embassy has been housed at its present location for nearly four years. Its site was clearly marked on tourist maps that are on sale internationally. Its address is listed in the Belgrade telephone directory. Besides public maps, US intelligence agencies have access to satellite reconnaissance and other high-technology surveillance, for which some $29 billion is budgeted annually.

China is a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council with veto rights. It has been strongly opposed to the NATO bombing, stressing that the entire operation violated the "territorial integrity" of a national state. - AP

COMMENTS

"Whether or not this is a case of an accident, the government and the people of the People's Republic of China deserve a thorough explanation of what had happened as well as compensation."Thailand Foreign Ministry said. -- Reuters (May 11)

"China Should ask an international war crimes tribunal to investigate the bombing." -- Apple Daily, Hong Kong

"The Crime committed by NATO must be pursued."--Tai Kung Pao, Hong Kong

"There is not and cannot be any justification for the bombing...the attack is a flagrant violation of international law. "Russian President Boris Yeltsin said. - Reuters
CANDLELIGHT VIGILS MEMORIAL SERVICE
ORGANIZED BY
THE CHINESE COMMUNITY AT DC AREA

Join Us to Mourn for the victims in the Balkans!
Join Us to Pray for Peace!

Dedicated to

Mrs.SHAO Yunhuan,
Mr. XU Yinghu, and
Mrs.ZHU Ying, the three Chinese journalists, and All other innocent people killed in the Kosovo Crisis.

Chinese Americans in the greater Washington DC area were shocked and sadden by the tragic NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. We are also deeply concerned about the severe impact of this incident on the U.S.-China relation. We must join hands to condemn the killing of innocents, help heal the wounds, pray for peace, and mend the US-China relation. For these purposes, the Chinese Community will organize the following peaceful demonstration:

Candlelight Vigils Memorial Service
Time: May 18,Tuesday,8:OO-9:OOpm.
Place: LaFayette Park, DC, North of the Whitehouse
Address: At the cross section of H Street and 16 Street, NW, Washington DC
Service: Individuals bring your candlelight (and the organizers would also prepare some); pay respects to the victims; speeches by community leaders and invited speakers; and singing for peace.
Attendants: All peace-loving people are invited.
Direction: Take Metro (Subway) Orange Line to Farragut West or McPherson Square; or Take Metro Red Line to Metro Center or Farragut North. Walk to the Park at the cross section of 16 Street and H Sheet. NO PARKING ON STREETS!

STATEMENT OF THE ORGANIZERS:

FOR ALL PEACE-LOVING PEOPLE, AND FOR JUSTICE AND BASIC
HUMAN RIGHTS, WE MUST
1. PRAY FOR PEACE, MOURN FOR THE VICTIMS!
2. STOP NATO BOMBING!
3. PAY EQUAL RESPECTS TO ALL HUMAN LIVES!
STOP
BOMBING
YUGOSIAVIA

Join the March on the Pentagon
Gather at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC
JUNE 5 * 12 NOON
Money for Jobs & Education
-- not WAR

U.S./NATO bombs and cruise missiles are raining down on Belgrade, Pristina, Novi Sad and other cities and towns in Yugoslavia-a country smaller than the state of Ohio. Bombs are falling on Serbs, Albanians, Hungarians, Romanis and Montenegrins alike.

In the name of "peace," NATO has killed thousands and destroyed hospitals, homes, schools, bridges, power and water treatment plants, factories, and more. In the name of "protecting human rights," the air war has trig-gered a refugee crisis displacing hundreds of thousands of people.

Now, the threat of a U.S. invasion of Yugo-slavia looms. A ground war will mean the deployment of hundreds of thousands of troops. The bombing of oil refineries, chemical plants and NATO's use of radioactive depleted-uranium weapons threatens Europe with an environmental disaster.

Now is the time to act! People in the United States helped to end the Vietnam War thirty years ago. We must go into the streets to stop this new war.

Yugoslavia is the fourth country-along with Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan-bombed by U.S. military forces in the past eight months. We must act to build a broad and deep movement that says "NO" to this madness.

We are urging you to join us in the newly formed Emergency Mobilization to Stop the War.

You can make a difference. Organize buses. Circulate petitions. Call others. Get involved.
EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION STOP THE WAR
www.iacenter.org
iacenter@iacenter.org
39 WEST 14 ST, #206 NEW YORK, NY 10011
212 / 633-6646

HELP STOP
THE WAR

When Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.spoke out against the Vietnam War, he said that "The U.S. bombs falling in the villages of Vietnam are exploding in the inner cities of the U.S." Today, the billions of dollars being spent bombing Yugoslavia are being taken from city and state budgets across the U.S. and from programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

What have the bombings done? Thousands of civilians including many children have been killed, and thousands more have been seriously wounded. Some 500,000 Yugoslav work-ers have lost their jobs because their factories and shops were destroyed by the bombs. Auto workers at the Yugo plant announced they were going to stay in their factory around-the-clock to save it from being bombed. NATO destroyed it anyway, killing many on the night shift. "Smart" bombs have hit a passenger train, apartment complexes and buses, including a convoy of refugees. Small children have been hit by cluster bombs-made up of thousands of explosive pellets designed to main people and preserve property.

Some politicians want to widen the war with ground troops. Whose sons and daughters will they send to kill and be killed? Remember the Vietnam War. The children of the rich stayed home and got richer. The children of workers were sent to die.

We are told that the war is to help the people of Kosovo. That's a big lie. Even the Pentagon admits there are many, many more refugees since the bombing began than before, since so many are fleeing the bombing itself. Every time the Pentagon sends troops or bombs Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Panama, Grenada, Lebanon, the Gulf, Somalia, and on and on-they tell the same old lie about helping the people there. How can you help people by bombing and invading their country? In truth, the bankers and Wall Street executives who support this war want just one thing-to carve up Yugoslavia and take over the pieces for profit.

The Pentagon and NATO want to be the cops of the world-and the war against Yugoslavia is a form of international police brutality on a huge scale. Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, himself tar-geted for death for opposing police brutality, wrote this about the war: "As a deadly rain of high-tech bombs falls on Yugoslavia, a deadening rain of propaganda falls on Americans-media-manipulated lies designed to prime the populace into supporting harsher military measures against a sovereign nation, in the name of pro-tecting human rights....This isn't about 'human rights.' It isn't about 'ethnic minorities.' And it also isn't about 'genocide.' It's about establishing who's 'boss' in the next century."

EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION STOP THE WAR
39 WEST 14 ST, #206 NEW YORK, NY 10011
212 633-6646 * Fox: 212 633-2889 * iacenter@iacenter.org * www.iacenter.org

Since the U.S./NATO bombing began, tens of thousands of people in more than a 100 cities have marched in protest. Join this growing movement.
Endorse the June 5 March
Add your name or group to the thou-sands of activists, student groups and grass roots organizations endorsing and building the June 5 March.
Outreach Resources
Flyers, posters, stickers, buttons, books, videos and fact sheets from the New York office.
Funds urgently needed
Help raise funds for the flyers, posters, postage, phones, etc., by making donations and asking other to donate. Raise funds to subsidize bus transportation so everyone is able get to Washington on June 5.
MOBILIZING CENTERS
Atlanta 770 662-6417 Los Angeles 213 487-2368
Baltimore 410 235-7040 Milwaukee 414 374-1034
Boston 617 522-6626 Philadelphia 215 724-1618
Buffalo 716 855-3055 Providence,R1 401 467-2288
Chicago 312 329-6119 Rochester,NY 716 436-6458
Cleveland 216 426-0851 San Francisco 415 821-6545
Detroit 313 831-0750 Washington, DC 202 544-5752
Houston 713 861-5965

PETITION

President Clinton: Stop Bombing the People of Yugoslavia

President Bill Clinton
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Washinaton D C

We, the undersigned, oppose the illegal and immoral U.S./NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the sending of U.S. ground troops:

Name Address Phone Email

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We will deliver 1 million petitions to the White House on June 5, 1999. The delivery of the signatures will coincide with a National Mass March from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the steps of the Pentagon on June 5.

Please reproduce petition forms and circulate widely. Return signed petitions to: Emergency Mobilization to Stop the War, 39 W. 14th St., Suite 206, NY, NY 10011 Tel (212) 633-6646 email: iacenter@iacenter.org

This petition was circulated by: (please print)
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