The ICTY is Euro/NATO/USA/UN vehicle of official rationalization ('denial'?) and so far they've managed to look like biased and inept fools at that task.
In a war I expect both sides to lie and to vilify the other guy. In this regard and in this instance I believe the islamists and burgeoning cartels far outdid the tottering communists and Serb nationalists; IMHO.
That the ICTY is lying is a given considering their function: If the Serbs cannot be shown to be the bad guys - then we are the bad guys. That a large part of western officialdom, press, and political parties support this policy is also a given.
At least you and I can debate what makes a massacre, when it is possible to massacre two people just as it is possible to massacre two thousand.
You and I are talking about approximately two thousand over a period of weeks, we don't even know how many of those were armed insurgents but 2 to 3K seems a core number. Meanwhile, the press, the ICTY, and the western left, will gladly trumpet numbers in many tens of thousands right along with accepting muslim reports at face value.
Sympathetic sources continue to claim the numeric variance is due to truck convoys hauling bodies back to Serbia, back to the capital city even, in order to hide evidence - despite that being one of the most absurd concepts I've ever heard put forward by presumed rational minds.
In the meantime, those same sources easily make references to over 600,000 Iraqi civilian deaths based on clear blue sky, unfounded reports and mystical formulas used to estimate our sins.
Two different wars and two different sets of allies so the 'news' tells us that we did good in the Balkans but we did bad in Iraq.
Who's propaganda should we assume that reflected?
difficult questions. i'll have to think on this some.
regards,
zimdog