According to our information, there were 800,000 mercenaries
Well, your information was wildly wrong. There are only 2 million people total living in Kosovo. 800,000 mercenaries means a force equal to 40% of Kosovo's population and with a land area of 4000 square miles, it also means there were 200 mercenaries camped out in every single square mile of Kosovo. Right. The KLA may have had as many as 20,000 active fighters at its peak in 1999 with perhaps that many again part-timers. Estimates vary, but none quite as wildly as Slobo's most recent "witness."
The flight of Kosovo Albanians "was the result of the bombing of NATO", he added.
Serb talking points. Unfortunately, just like with the Dems, the facts don't back up the mantra. By the beginning of March 1999, prior to the begining of the bombing, the combination of fighting and the targeting of civilians had left an estimated 1,500-2,000 civilians and combatants dead. More than 200,000 Albanian civilians were internally displaced, almost 70,000 Albanians had fled the province to neighboring countries and Montenegro, and a further 100,000 Yugoslav nationals, mostly Kosovar Albanians, had sought asylum in Western Europe. By March 19th, still before the bombing, a total of 443,000 or 22% of Kosovo's mostly Albanian population had been displaced.
So your assumption that Milosevich was the cause is not correct. Kosovars would rather live here in NOrway on welfare and partake in criminal activity than perform productive work and build up Kosovo.
Everyone agrees on that. However, most civilian killings were apparently perpetrated by the KLA against other Albanians for various political or personal reasons. Classic Gheq Albanian tribalism, traditionally among the most violent in Europe, now deadlier as it is enforced by the No.1 heroin mafia in Europe. The chaos of the war that they provoked gave them a first class opportunity to dispose of a thousand or so unfaithful Albanians before March '99 and of even higher numbers afterwards.
"By the beginning of March 1999 ... More than 200,000 Albanian civilians were internally displaced, ..."
Well, this is from the Soros-controlled "human rights watch" and, as such, is not worth the paper it is written on. Not even Clinton's CIA moles in the KVM talked about such numbers. Nevertheless, in a clannish society driven by blind loyalty (i.e. fear) to powerful leaders/warlords, such numbers of internally displaced are not so hard to achieve for someone like KLA's Commander Remi. And of course who among those poor villagers would dare not to blame the dastardly Serbs for their displacement?
" 100,000 Yugoslav nationals, mostly Kosovar Albanians, had sought asylum in Western Europe. "
For obvious propaganda purposes of hrw, this number (whether or not accurate) is of course blamed on Milosevic. The banal reality, however, is that the vast majority of those migrated for financial reasons, the same reasons that prompted them or their parents to migrate from destitute northern Albania to Yugoslav-subsidised Kosovo. When the Yugo cash cow went dry, they left.