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I was thinking the number of dead found in Kosovo was around 3,000 but your 5,000 could be a more accurate tally. I think the estimates for American Bombing victims are between 500 and 800. However, that number of people found dead in Kosovo does not tell us how they died. I would imagine that at least some of those dead were KLA fighters, citizens killed by KLA fighters, and citizens killed during the bombing.

So, if around 2,000 civilians end up having been killed by Government forces in the process of fighting a bloody civil war. Was that worth the US killing 500-800 civilians in bombing campaign that ended up focussing on bombing civilian infrastructure. Certainly its the huge humanitarian crisis the media and NATO were claiming during the bombing when they claimed that tens to hundreds of thousands of people were being killed.

that number of people found dead in Kosovo does not tell us how they died

While the OMPF statistics do not reveal any information regarding who was responsible for the deaths in their cases, the ICTY, who recovered 4,211 victims before the OMPF took over was - targeting specifically those sites identified as containing victims of Serbian crimes. Add to that the 836 victims recovered in Serbia proper and the number is over 5k.

It is informative to note what happened in the Republika Srpska in 2004, where pressure finally induced the government in Banja Luka to disclose the location of remaining Srebrenica-related mass graves, which are still being exhumed to this day. Such a revelation has not been forthcoming from Belgrade regarding the whereabouts of the remainder of victims from Kosovo, and given the current leadership in Belgrade, does not look to be forthcoming any time soon.

Leaving the number of victims murdered by the Serbian Army and Police forces, there is also the matter of Milosevic attempting to ethnically cleanse Kosovo of its Albanian population. We had warned Milosevic against just such a course of action back in 1992, backed with the threat of American military intervention should he choose to go through with such plans. Milosevic went forward with his plans, and the rest is, as they say, history.