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To: pythagorean
Pythag - why is it that when I read your posts I'm always underwhelmed by the effort you put into verifying your information?

You claimed that over 200 Yugoslav army troops were court martialed for war crimes in Kosovo when as of October 2002, there had been only 4 soldiers brought up on war crime charges, and I haven't seen any reporting of further prosecutions by the military.

Perhaps you were just confusing the VJ's prosecution of deserters and those who failed to report for duty with prosecutions for war crimes:

Reports of the arrest, prosecution, sentencing and imprisonment of conscientious objectors, draft evaders and deserters continue to be received by Amnesty International -even though the "state of war" in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has officially been ended. Estimates of the number of such cases currently before military courts in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia begin at 4,000 and extend as high as 30,000. A former head of the Legal Department of the Yugoslav Army Supreme Command put the number of cases at 23,000, according to information received by Amnesty International in July. The Montenegrin Helsinki Committee has estimated that proceedings have been brought against 14,000 individuals in that republic alone. According to a press report from July, Colonel Ratko Korlat, President of the Belgrade Military Court, has stated that his court is dealing with 2,400 cases - with an additional 1,900 cases under investigation.    source

Considering that not a single prosecution has been mounted in response to any of the mass graves uncovered in Serbia since 2001, your attempt to equate Serbian efforts at policing themselves with ours can only be described as a rather lame attempt at humor on your part.

Quit wasting your time defending the indefensible.

18 posted on 01/20/2005 9:37:06 AM PST by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite

My purpose was not to write comprehensive essays to overwhelm you, but to highlight some important points addressed in the thread, whose subject is the well designed, propaganda-savvy terrorist activity of the KLA. I may have digressed a bit by noting some similarirties in the tactics of KLA terrorists with terrorists in Iraq, but let open-minded readers of the forum decide on the merits of this comparison.


19 posted on 01/20/2005 1:47:27 PM PST by pythagorean
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