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To: Hoplite
This should be easy...

Your PDF proves nothing except that the people who compiled it were politically motivated or paid by someone to write anti-Serb lies. In fact, that report's information is based on interviews of Albanian refugees (and probably KLA too). Obviously Albanians are going to paint a bad picture of the Serbs. Not a reliable source of information.

Secondly it makes no attempt to justify how it arrives at its count of 10,000. The fact remains, about 4000 bodies have been found in total, and of those ~4000 no one is able to say which percentage are civilians and which percentage are KLA terrorists, or even which percentage are Albanian. Maybe all bodies found are Serbs.

The count does not exclude KLA's, because every body unearthed is always assumed to be a civilian (maybe if he was actually buried holding an assault rifle in his hands, then they might assume he wasn't a civilian).

Also, your report concentrates only on the period after the bombing began. It ignores the fact that prior to the bombing there were not hundreds of thousands of refugees, only a few internally displaced for their own safety.

I know Milosevic promised to "behave" in Oct 1998. That was because the KLA at that time agreed to disarm. A few weeks later they attacked some police and killed them. When you have criminals who are too well-armed for the police to handle, you have no choice but to send in the army to deal with them. Any other country would of done the same.

I can't deny some war crimes happened. But 10,000 civilian deaths is ridiculous. The facts just don't support it.

63 posted on 03/17/2003 5:17:54 AM PST by Seselj
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To: Seselj
Of course it's going to be easy - you simply refuse to accept any information that goes against your viewpoint and try to fill the ensuing void with fabrications

It ignores the fact that prior to the bombing there were not hundreds of thousands of refugees, only a few internally displaced for their own safety.

This is quite simply yet another lie foisted upon us by Milosevic apologists - the UNHCR was estimating "well over 400,000 people," displaced from their homes in Kosovo, with 250,000 of them still in Kosovo on 3/23/99, before the bombing started.

Furthermore, it's obvious you can't even be bothered to become at least familiar with the material I referenced, as your statement " it makes no attempt to justify how it arrives at its count of 10,000" is unsupportable - here, have a nice read.

So yeah, this was easy, just not for the person you were hoping.

64 posted on 03/17/2003 10:16:17 AM PST by Hoplite
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