Reply #122: I don't believe this [View All]

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That someone would dig out this article now and quote it here as "proof" for thousands of Albanians being murdered prior to the NATO bombings

- when even the article itself and Cohen don't say this at all (it is about a suspicion that "they may have been murdered")
- when it was obvious to even moderately informed newspaper readers at the time (8.5 years ago) that this kind of talk was just a cheap propaganda stunt
- when the propaganda was toned down immediately following the NATO invasion, down to 11000 missing and "suspected" killed
- and official investigations came to the conclusion that even this number was way off the mark, surprise, surprise.

"... The Foundation for Humanitarian Law led by Nata_a Kandi_, much beloved and much bankrolled by Western governments and non-governmental organizations, runs a project seeking to establish the number of dead and missing in Kosovo. According to an article in the Croatian magazine, Globus, "The project has documented 9,702 people dead or missing during the war in Kosovo from 1998 to 2000. Of this number, as things stand now, 4,903 killed and missing are Albanians and 2,322 are Serbs, with the rest either belonging to other nationalities or their ethnic identity remaining uncertain." One should add also that these numbers say nothing about how people were killed, whether in combat or otherwise, and by whom. And there's no clarification as to how many were killed by NATO bombs. ..."

http://counterpunch.com/szamuely02152008.html


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