Quick answer to avoid getting pulled back in:
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> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> According to the ethnic Albanian Council for the Defense of Human
> Rights and
> Freedoms in Pristina, 1,934 ethnic Albanians were killed in Kosovo before
> the NATO bombing. That includes both civilians and fighters. You code that
> as "Medium to High" brutality.
First, deaths are not the only measure of brutality, especially the Balkans. Deaths aimed at driving people completely out of the country as refugees is also a major form of military brutality. Along with the estimated 2000 killed, there are estimates of as many as 100,000 Kosovars leaving the country in the years just before because of that brutality. And the estimated tens of thousands of military brutality and militia murders that followed NATO intervention are hard to measure as anything other than "Medium to High."
--Nathan Newman