Posted on 11/22/2005 4:21:00 PM PST by joan
OSLO/SARAJEVO: The confirmed death toll in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia appears to be closer to 100,000 dead than the often-quoted figure of 200,000, a Norwegian news agency reported yesterday, quoting the head of the Sarajevo-based Research and Documentation Centre.
“In October we had 93,000 names on our lists and the numbers are increasing slightly. But the final tally will likely be around 100,000,” Mirsad Tokaca was quoted as saying.
The centre was set up in April 2004 “to investigate and gather facts, documents and data on genocide, war crimes and human rights violations, regardless of the ethnic, political, religious, social, or racial affiliation of the victims”.
A similar estimate has also been used by population statisticians at the UN war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia.
The estimate published by researchers Ewa Tabeau and Jacub Biljak was 102,000.
All of the casualties listed by Tokaca and his co-researchers are identified by name. Tokaca said the number of 250,000 dead has “never been based on research”.
As we refresh our memories, it may well have been the same piece, most likely was France 2 which we usually watched.
Well, we actually saw the piece just as it first appeared so can corroborate the story. Thanks for the info. We had been telling our friends here about it and most treated it with tongue in cheek skepticism.
When I reminded my wife, she repeated the same details you quoted,not having read your post.
We also saw a French general throw his UN (Smurf) powder blue beret on the ground and stomp on it. That too was never repeated in the news and we suspect the reporter for both must have sharply limited his own career by allowing out the early release.
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War...what is it good for? Nothing....
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