The alleged "Racak Massacre"

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>  I think that's a bit naive: few of those questioning Racak are also
>>  pointing out that there were other massacres...
>
>I think you're misremembering, Brad.  Almost everyone that originally
>pointed out the holes in the Racak massacre story when it came out, from
>Noam and Diana Johnston on down, accepted in writing the State Department
>estimate put out the previous October that an estimated 2000 people were
>being killed a year in Kosovo, 9/10ths of them Albanians.  They simply
>pointed out that, unfortunately, that could be said of a lot of places in
>the world.  Like Colombia, for example, where we're on the opposite side,
>with the army and its paramilitaries, and against the rebels.
>
>Michael

About 2,000 people, the large majority of whom were civilians, were 
killed during the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama.  (Some human rights 
orgs have a higher estimate than this, & I'm putting here one of the 
conservative numbers.)  Keep in mind that the invasion of Panama was 
of a much shorter duration than the counter-insurgency warfare in 
Kosovo.

Yoshie