The innocent and the guilty
Where have they buried the bodies?
How have they concealed their crimes?
Why did they hide all the corpses
Of the murdered and disappeared ones?
What have they got to hide?
Who are these death-dealing ones?
When will we bring them to justice?
Will the criminals get off scot-free?
For centuries now they have murdered
And worked little children to death.
They have stolen from workers the riches
We've produced in their factories and fields.
One day we'll demand an accounting.
One day our dead voices will speak.
Too long we've been silent,
The millions cry out:
Let the blood of the martyrs be heard.
Where have they buried the bodies?
How have they concealed their crimes?
Why did they hide all the corpses
Of the murdered and disappeared ones?
What have they got to hide?
Who are these death-dealing ones?
When will we bring them to justice?
Will the criminals get off scot-free?
They told us such stories from Kosovo
Of thousands of innocents slaughtered,
Of the bodies thrown into mass graves.
So they flew in the bombers,
Rained down death from the skies,
And sent in a “peace-keeping” force.
They said: Where have they buried the bodies?
How have they concealed their crimes?
Why did they hide all the corpses
Of the murdered and disappeared ones?
What have they got to hide?
Who are these dealers in death?
When will we bring them to justice?
Will the criminals get off scot-free?
So they mounted an investigation
To bring all the criminals to court.
When they dug up the bodies
Not two hundred were found:
The excuse for the bombing collapsed.
Some were clearly the dead from the battles
Between guerrillas and the Serbian police.
Some civilians were killed in the fighting,
And others by death from the skies.
So where have they buried the bodies?
How have they concealed their crimes?
Why did they hide all the corpses
Of the murdered and disappeared ones?
What have they got to hide?
Who are these dealers in death?
When will we bring them to justice?
Will the criminals get off scot-free?
Many more of the Yugoslav people
Were killed by their so-called smart bombs.
But commanders who ordered this carnage
Live safe and in comfort at home.
They called it a humane operation.
But really it was all about oil.
And for this they've polluted the waters
And made radioactive the soil.
This shouldn't surprise anybody:
The leopard cannot change its spots.
They were always such kings of deception
Weeping crocodile tears as they killed.
But where have they buried the bodies?
How have they concealed their crimes?
Why did they hide all the corpses
Of the murdered and disappeared ones?
What have they got to hide?
Who are these dealers in death?
When will we bring them to justice?
Will the criminals get off scot-free?
From John Ball to Patrice Lumumba,
Like Lenin shot down on the factory steps,
Joe Hill killed by judicial murder,
And Malcolm X gunned down in New York.
They crucified Jesus in Israel:
The death roll grows longer each day.
The merchants of death live by killing,
It's the way they hold on to their power.
It's time to cry stop,
Live by justice and love,
And rebuild from bottom to top.
Find out where they have buried the bodies,
How they have concealed their crimes.
Why did they hide all the corpses
Of the murdered and disappeared ones?
What have they got to hide?
Who are these dealers in death?
When will we bring them to justice?
Will the criminals get off scot-free?
November 11, 1999
