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To: Hoplite
Refer to Patrick Ball's testimony at Milosevic's trial from March 13/14 2002, and to Killings and Refugee Flow in Kosovo March - June 1999 (.pdf) page 20.

I looked it up. If the information is correct it means that there were 4200 dead (55% unidentified) from undetermined time which included the intensive guerilla and anit-guerilla warfare and earlier time, intensive NATO bombing, large movement of population during which normal funerals can be impossible (a significant number of people die in every large population for natural reasons while disease rate increases in time of chaos).

So what conclusion can you draw? 4200 (or less if you discount negative or missing identification) dead during such civil war combined with foreign intervention looks rather low to me.

73 posted on 12/21/2003 10:36:42 AM PST by A. Pole (pay no attention to the man behind the curtain , the hand of free market must be invisible)
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To: A. Pole
Those 4,200 do not represent all the dead, as they are only victims exhumed up through 2001. There have been an additional 800+ recovered from Serbia proper, and the thrust of the 'Killings' section of the report is a statistical analysis of the data which results in an estimate of ~10,000 Kosovar Albanian civilians killed by Milosevic's forces.
74 posted on 12/21/2003 10:51:38 AM PST by Hoplite
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