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To: Hoplite
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.

Less than half was identified, and some of them could have died from natural causes, some could be killed by KLA (as colaborators, Serbs, Gypsies, in gang/vendetta killings), some died from NATO bombing etc. And I guess you count KLA fighers as civilians?

75 posted on 12/21/2003 10:59:57 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
Look, people report Kosovar Albanians being killed by Serb forces. The ICTY investigates these reports, finds mass graves, and exhumes the victims. Those victims are the 4,211 number in the report.

Not KLA fighters, not victims of NATO bombs, and not Serb civilians. The methodology excludes those groups from the victims considered in the report. The "Killings" section of the report deals with Kosovar Albanian victims of Serb forces, and it explicitly states this in the introduction and details in the body of the report.

This is beyond your amateur hour understanding and efforts to discredit.

76 posted on 12/21/2003 11:41:01 AM PST by Hoplite
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