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This was a conscious calculation. Three tanks were destroyed. Other reports say
that seven tanks were hit. Yet over 300 schools and 33 hospitals were bombed.
We present the lists of schools and of the hospitals to enter into evidence for the
Commission of Inquiry.
       The most damning evidence that this was a war on the civilian population
is the simple fact that 30% of those killed were children. Some 30% to 40% of
the wounded were children! Just to reiterate the Geneva Convention: "If there is
any likelihood that a target has a civilian function than bombing is prohibited."
       NATO must be held accountable for the use of prohibited weapons like
the 35,000 cluster bombs and graphite bombs it used, and for use of depleted
uranium weapons that have left hundreds of thousands of pounds of radioactive
waste.
       We will hear testimony, see videos and photos on the billions of dollars of
infrastructure and property damage, and the destruction of the environment, a
disaster due to the conscious, calculated bombing of chemical plants.
       Today’s Hearing of Evidence will be repeated many times in the months
ahead. The body of evidence will grow and so will the understanding of the war.
There will be a series of public forums to uncover, expose and examine what has
been hidden, suppressed and censured.

                                       TEXT 13

       Remarks by Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger upon Sign-
                 ing the Chemical Weapons Convention

      Paris, France January 13, 1993

       Mr. President, Mr. Secretary, esteemed colleagues:
       It is fitting that we meet to sign this historic Chemical Weapons Conven-
tion in a city where, four years ago, the international community appealed for
the strengthening of norms against chemical warfare I am pleased to be in Paris,
and I am especially pleased to represent my President, George Bush, a man who
over the course of the past decade launched some of the key initiatives which
helped to make this agreement possible.
       But such has been the amazing record of the past few years. We have seen
the international community liberate itself from half a century of gridlock and
paralysis and move beyond the rhetoric of democracy to achieve real democ-
racy; move beyond the rhetoric of detente to achieve real peace; and move be-
yond the rhetoric of disarmament to achieve real reductions in weapons of mass
destruction.
       The Chemical Weapons Convention we sign today does more than simply
reduce a class of arms or mitigate against their proliferation: this Convention
mandates a world-wide, non-discriminatory ban on an entire class of weapons of
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