Posted on 03/13/2006 2:57:16 AM PST by Fred Nerks
Claims of up to 100,000 ethnic Albanians massacred in Kosovo revised to under 3,000 as exhumations near end Special report:
Kosovo The final toll of civilians confirmed massacred by Yugoslav forces in Kosovo is likely to be under 3,000, far short of the numbers claimed by Nato governments during last year's controversial air strikes on Yugoslavia.
As war crimes experts from Britain and other countries prepare to wind down the exhumation of hundreds of graves in Kosovo on behalf of the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague, officials concede they have not borne out the worst wartime reports. These were given by refugees and repeated by western government spokesmen during the campaign. They talked of indiscriminate killings and as many as 100,000 civilians missing or taken out of refugee columns by the Serbs. The fact that far fewer Kosovo Albanians were massacred than suggested by Nato will raise sharp questions about the organisation's handling of the media and its information strategy. However, commentators yesterday stressed that the new details should not obscure the fact that the major war crime in the tribunal's indictment of the Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, and four other Serb officials is the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo and forced deportation of hundreds of thousands of people. "The point is did we successfully pre-empt or not," Mark Laity, the acting Nato spokesman, said last night. "I think the evidence shows we did. We would rather be criticised for overestimating the numbers who died than for failing to pre-empt.
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Well, that's not such a bad crime. We should let President Milosevic go free! DOH!
Sorry, can't do that. He's dead you know. The FOURTH one to die in the custody of the same body that likes to think it will one day rule the whole world. Creeps me out.
I appreciate your tagline. Particularly right now. The bona-fides of the World Court and its establishment as a ruling entity was apparently so important that the lives of the defendants and their witnesses were forfeit.
Stalin shared that philosophy.
Boycott their sponsors.
Waste of time. Churchill got it right when he said, 'a lie has travelled halfway round the world, before truth gets its pants on'
And the MSM know that.
IMO, if the enemy won't listen to you (and they won't) tell your friends!
Don't let the people who are near and dear to you remain misinformed. I print out articles such as these, and hand them around.
Thanks, that does read better. No one has mentioned the date of the article. It's AUGUST 2000!
Thus the "DOH!"
This is a title of his article from 1974: Live Not By Lies
He believed that people can be freed from opression by sticking to the truth, and that they can be enslaved by abetting the lie.
(SNIP)
So in our timidity, let each of us make a choice: Whether consciously, to remain a servant of falsehood--of course, it is not out of inclination, but to feed one's family, that one raises his children in the spirit of lies--or to shrug off the lies and become an honest man worthy of respect both by one's children and contemporaries.
And from that day onward he:
Will not henceforth write, sign, or print in any way a single phrase which in his opinion distorts the truth. Will utter such a phrase neither in private conversation not in the presence of many people, neither on his own behalf not at the prompting of someone else, either in the role of agitator, teacher, educator, not in a theatrical role.
Will not depict, foster or broadcast a single idea which he can only see is false or a distortion of the truth whether it be in painting, sculpture, photography, technical science, or music.
Will not cite out of context, either orally or written, a single quotation so as to please someone, to feather his own nest, to achieve success in his work, if he does not share completely the idea which is quoted, or if it does not accurately reflect the matter at issue.
Will not allow himself to be compelled to attend demonstrations or meetings if they are contrary to his desire or will, will neither take into hand not raise into the air a poster or slogan which he does not completely accept.
Will not raise his hand to vote for a proposal with which he does not sincerely sympathize, will vote neither openly nor secretly for a person whom he considers unworthy or of doubtful abilities. Will not allow himself to be dragged to a meeting where there can be expected a forced or distorted discussion of a question.
Will immediately talk out of a meeting, session, lecture, performance or film showing if he hears a speaker tell lies, or purvey ideological nonsense or shameless propaganda.
Will not subscribe to or buy a newspaper or magazine in which information is distorted and primary facts are concealed.
Yes, sadly. And the 'world' being rather short-sighted, sees only what AMERICA did, no one asks themselves first, just who was Commander in Chief at the time. And who were his accomplices?
I can well imagine a rabid Hilary prowling the corridors of power, screaming KILL THE SERBS! (always did have a vivid imagination, I did.)
Old, Mo might have met Arkancide.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595293/posts
This sorry tale has many more chapters.
The Clinton's lied and how many Serbs died?
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