Where did you see the city-by-city breakdown?
The official U.S. government number is around 4,600. This is on the State Dept.'s website and was given out by the Pentagon at a press briefing on the Chinese Embassy bombing, to remind reporters that the Serbs are nasty, too.
If the administration is jacking the figure up to 10,000 for the Post, I'd be interested to know if this was on background or attributed. I doubt that there is some genuine higher number out there that the U.S. is hesitating to publicize.
In the interest of not sounding like an apologist, let me say that I don't apologize for the Milosevic regime. However, my suspicion is that we will sooner or later find out that some of the wilder accounts of the scale of Serb atrocities in Kosovo have been exaggerated, just as the Germans' exploits in Belgium were exaggerated in WW1 for the same purposes. I also don't apologize for the Kaiser's regime.
Cheers,
Seth
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. [SMTP:rosserjb at jmu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 6:12 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: body count
>
> Doug,
> Ah your message shows up! As I said in
> response to Seth's misguided remarks,
> this refers to the earlier wars. The 5,000-
> 10,000 number is claimed by the US administration
> as reported in the Washington Post. Actually a
> fairly detailed city-by-city breakdown produced
> a number just under 5,000 civilian dead in Kosmet.
> Barkley Rosser
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Date: Thursday, May 13, 1999 3:13 PM
> Subject: body count
>
>
> >Barkley, I've seen you quote a figure of 200,000 killed by the
> Serbians.
> >What's the background on this number?
> >
> >Doug
> >