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To: mark502inf
Stojanovic...headed the Yugoslav army intelligence service in Kosovo during the 1998-99 conflict. A witness at the war crimes trial of former president Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague has pointed to Stojanovic as the officer who had ordered a mass killing of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in reprisal for a murdered Serb officer.

Yes, "mass killings". Give me a break. 2100 bodies found in 5 years vs. tens of thousands in Iraq in 5 months.

33 posted on 02/02/2004 7:22:02 AM PST by montag813
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To: montag813
A witness at the war crimes trial of former president Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague has pointed to Stojanovic as the officer who had ordered a mass killing of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in reprisal for a murdered Serb officer. Yes, "mass killings". Give me a break. 2100 bodies found in 5 years vs. tens of thousands in Iraq in 5 months

Montag, you're wrong yet again. The Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) for Kosovo put out a press release about a year ago on recovered bodies and numbers still missing. Excerpts from the OMPF report are below:

· Since 1999, 4019 bodies of victims of the [Kosovo] conflict have been recovered and approximately 2212 have been identified.

· According to the latest version of the Consolidated List of Missing Persons, 4233 persons are still reported as missing, of which 164 are considered dead (but the body has not yet been recovered). · According to the list, 3324 victims would be Albanian and 909 non-Albanians.

Apply the Albanian-Serb ratio of the missing to the dead and you get a total of around 6,000-7,000 dead Albanians. Not inconsiderable if you are an Albanian; especially since the proportional equivalent of that many deaths in the USA's population would be about 900,000-1,000,000.

Nice logic trail, too. Your response to court testimony of a Serb massacre is to talk about graves in Iraq.

34 posted on 02/02/2004 9:18:05 AM PST by mark502inf
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