Representative Dan Burton, along with Rep. Bob Barr and Rep. Tom Campbell, form the core of Republican House pro-Belgrade sentiment. The three co-sponored a lawsuit to destroy the NATO effort against Milosevic and give him a huge victory in Kosovo. Had their lawsuit or their bill in the house succeeded, NATO would have been destroyed and Milosevic would be exterminating every last Kosovar Albanian in triumph, with more mass-rape, mass-graves, burning of churches and mosques.

Representative Dan Burton, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, made himself famous by calling the president a "scumbag" because of campaign finance issues. Burton himself is also well known for taking major contributions from the dictator of Zaire, Mobutu, and then giving speeches on the House floor praising the vicious dictator who destroyed his nation for his "democratic reforms" and lobbying to get a visa-refusal for Mobutu reversed.

Now it turns out that Dan Burton is the single largest recipient of contributions from the Serbian Unity Congress (SUC), the lobby group for extremist Serbian militants that supported the Karadzic regime in Bosnia (Karadzic has been indicted for genocide by the International Tribunal in The Hague).

The SUC has also supported the forced deportation and destruction of the Kosovar Albanians. In 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994, as the SUC was pumping money into the Burton campaign, it was approving its Kosovo resolution calling on expulsion of Kosovar Albanians. In 1995 the SUC began channeling its money through private contributors so that it could more easily hide its contribution flow.

Another recipient of SUC contributions is Rep. Randy Cunningham who throughout the dangerous NATO operation lobbied against it, said it was doomed to failure, attacked the Kosovars, and generally spouted the Milosevic line.

In the next few weeks, the world will see what the SUC program that Milosevic began to implement in Kosovo in earnest in 1998 after years of repression and terror against the Albanians, amounted to.

For the record of contributions by the SUC to Burton and Cunningham and for the close links of the SUC to the Senate Republican leadership, see the Balkans war-crimes and human rights page at http://www.haverford.edu/relg/sells/reports.html.