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To: Hoplite

"why are you repeating the "no ethnic cleansing prior to Allied Force" lie"

Because the sources I rely on have been involved with Kosovo before the Yugoslavian wars started. These sources have always worked for peaceful solutions to ethnic problems. And no these sources are not Serb-backed. The major one of these is Transnational Organisation whose founder Jan Öberg is a internationally respected expert in Peace and Reconciliation and has been interviewed many times on CNN among other mainstream media networks. Other sources include albanians from kosovo that have lived in sweden since the early '90's who tell me that yes awful things had been going on but ethnic cleansing it was not. Is this enough for you?

As to your "additional pressure will be applied on the Kosovo Albanian leadership to become more proactive in preventing this type of behavior in the future."

There is a major difference in additional pressure compared to blackmailing (Rambouilett), threatening with bombing and destroying a sovereign state.


40 posted on 05/19/2004 11:14:00 AM PDT by Jane_N (Truth, like beauty....is in the eyes of the beholder!)
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To: Jane_N
Is this enough for you?

No. I could care less who your sources are - if their statements are in conflict with the facts, and you cannot resolve them, then you are in error for continuing to cite those sources as any sort of authority.

You are in error.

Tell me, Jane, why do 250,000 Serbs count more than 350,000, Kosovo Albanians?

So far, the Kosovar Albanians have responded to our pressure, whereas Milosevic simply racheted up his ethnic cleansing campaign - that some refuse to recognize Milosevic's actions as what they were doesn't invalidate NATO's reaction one bit.

41 posted on 05/19/2004 1:14:00 PM PDT by Hoplite
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