----- Original Message ----- From: "Seth Ackerman" <sia at nyc.rr.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 12:37 PM Subject: Re: Shaw on Herman
> The fact that a lot people were displaced from their homes during a civil
> war doesn't mean ethnic cleansing was going on. I challenge you to name a
> civil war in history that didn't result in mass displacement. There are
> millions of displaced in Afghanistan now, but nobody claims ethnic
cleansing
> is taking place. If anyone has evidence that before late March 1999 the
> Serbs were trying to execute a policy of permanently changing the ethnic
> balance of Kosovo,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_104000/104786.stm
The characterization of Serbian violence against the KLA and its supporters as a civil war holds little more weight than calling the conflict between Israel and Hamas et al a civil war.
-- Luke