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To: wonders; Wraith
Did either of you ever hear of "The incident at Rogovo"? It appears another Racak-style staged massacre was attempted to be created AFTER Racak - only "this time the TV helped the Serbs, unwillingly..."

The TV footage took the wind out of the stagers sails in this incident, but before it did, "'verifiers' declared initially that 23 civilians had been killed..." :

http://members.tripod.com/Balkania/resources/geostrategy/dolecek_accuse.html#b44

The incident at Rogovo (29 Jan. '99), a village close to Djakovica, proved again the perfidious approach of the OSCE verifiers. A group of 10 Serb policemen was attacked by a large group of Albanian terrorists. One policemen was killed. During the ensuing battle 23 separatists were killed. The "verifiers" declared initially that 23 civilians had been killed, but the TV footage showed quite clearly large quantities of weapons scattered around and seized, the UCK uniforms of the dead - and so a new Racak affair was not born. Even the Free Europe reported (29 Jan., at 4 p.m., in Czech) that 23 Albanians from the separatist army had been killed. The main Czech radio bulletin at 6 p.m. of the same day reported that 23 civilians had been killed, while the main CT1 news at 7:15 p.m. said that 23 Albanians had been killed, that many weapons had been seized, and that some Albanians had the UCK insignia. At this time the TV helped the Serbs, unwillingly... And just to compare - one day earlier, during an air raid by the U.S. planes, 23 civilians were killed in Basra, in Iraq. It was just a "collateral damage", a rocket erred somewhat. The international community accepted it without fuss.

230 posted on 12/06/2002 10:09:58 AM PST by joan
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To: joan; wonders
The right perception is what sways international opinion. This game is not a new one.
231 posted on 12/06/2002 10:49:08 AM PST by Wraith
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