Kosovo deaths

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 09:56 AM 7/16/99 -0400, Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote:
>rc-am wrote:
>> 
>> Brett wrote:
>> 
>> > If the Serbs killed a million Kosovars, the answer is yes.  If the number
>> > is more like 4,000, its not so clear cut.
>> 
>> why is it not so clear-cut?  what would be the non-numerical difference
>> between 4,000 bodies and 4 million?
>> 
>
>4 million would be the worst genocide since the Nazis, second worst in
>history. 4 thousand is a brutal counterinsurgency campaign, one of
>dozens going on right now (including one in NATO member Turkey) and
>perhaps hundreds this century.
>

I would take exception to the word "brutal" - it's ten time less than
counterinsurgency campaigns in, say, El Salvador - bankrolled with the US
tax dollars, and certainly not using torture as taught in the School of
Amerikkkas.

The brutality of US-sponsored and bankrolled counterinsurgency campaigns is
simply unsurpassed.

wojtek