East Timor, Kosovo, and Kuwait

[elena]

Nathan, what about adding to the *AFTER*math the environmental impact, which
is going to affect the *whole* region, probably resulting in genetically
modified Balkans?
NATO has always made it perfectly clear that they are not a scout/pioneer
camp sporting new toys on parade, methinks...
With all due respect (as wojtek sez)

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Newman <nathan.newman at yale.edu>
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Date: 21 Ñåïòåìâðè 1999 ã. 00:24
Subject: RE: East Timor, Kosovo, and Kuwait


>
>Quick answer to avoid getting pulled back in:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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
>
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