Kosovo deaths

[Enrique Diaz-Alvarez]

I've found it interesting that, in spite of the relentless barrage of
impoacting images from mass graves in Kosovo, not one western media
outlet has bothered to report on the total number of peple found in 
those mass graves. Finally, El Pais reports

http://www.elpais.es/p/d/19990714/internac/arbour.htm

that the total number of victims found in 10 mass graves investigated by
the international tribunal in Kosovo is _estimated by NATO_ to be around
400. According to NATO, there are 90 more mass graves. Since

a) we can assume that the worst mass graves are being given priority

b) at least a few of those deaths are be related to KLA-Yugo combat

c) NATO has proven a, shall we say, less than reliable source in this
matters (remember the estimates of 100,000+ deaths which inflamed the
war frenzies of ex-hippie warmongers like Sontag)

this seems to put a generous upper bound of 2-4,000 in the final amount
of inocents murdered by Serb forces. At worst, the Serbs killed no more
poeple than NATO humanitarians, not counting the inevitable increase in
death rates that will come from the environmental and infrastructural
devastation caused by two months of terror bombing of civilian targets.

Any comments from the lists' bombardiers and ex-bombardiers?

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