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[The International Committee of the Red Cross conducted two exhaustive surveys, in 1999 and in 2001, of the total number of Kosovo residents reported missing - from February of 1998 to May of 2001 - and the number was roughly 3,300, of which 900 plus were Serb and Roma victims of KLA racial killings; some 1, 300 were ethnic Albanians presumed to be held in Yugoslav jails; any number of which were ethnic Albanians, including KLA members, murdered by Hashim Thaci (see Chris Hedges' report in the New York Times in the summer of 1999), etc. With only perhaps some thousand people unaccounted for, how could Slobodan Milosevic be personally responsible for "10,000 deaths" during a brief seventy eight day period in 1999? The deaths of people not even unaccounted for? Josef Goebbels, step aside; you've been put in the shade by Ruder Finn and NATO's surreal propaganda machine.] Milosevic Derides Kosovo Mass-Exodus Report Thu Mar 14, 8:48 AM ET By Katie Nguyen THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Slobodan Milosevic (news - web sites) scoffed at evidence on Thursday that Serb atrocities provoked a mass exodus of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo in 1999, contemptuously dismissing it as "fabrication." Slideshows AP Photo Slobodan Milosevic Milosevic, who is defending himself against 66 counts of war crimes in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s at his war crimes trial, told a U.S. statistician during cross-examination that a report the witness helped to compile on Kosovo was flawed and lacked objectivity. Albanians were forced to flee the war-torn province due to a Serb crackdown and not because of NATO (news - web sites) bombing and a separatist guerrilla campaign by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), Patrick Ball told The Hague (news - web sites) war crimes court on Wednesday. Ball, who helped compile a report funded by the American Bar Association and American Association for the Advancement of Science (news - web sites) called "Killings and Refugee Flow in Kosovo: March-June 1999," had used technical charts during his testimony. The former Yugoslav leader questioned the authenticity of documents found at an Albanian border post recording the flow of refugees which was used in the report, suggesting they were planted as part of an Albanian propaganda campaign. "I think you have been deceived," Milosevic told Ball. "I very strongly doubt I was deceived," the bearded and bespectacled academic replied. "You know everything Mr. Ball except how these documents reached the rubble and who fabricated them," Milosevic retorted. The silver-haired former Serb leader has consistently rejected charges he spearheaded an operation to deport 800,000 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the first half of 1999. Milosevic blames NATO's 11-week bombing campaign against Yugoslavia and separatist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) guerrillas for the flight of civilians from the southern Serbian province. NATO airstrikes forced Serb troops to withdraw from Kosovo. TOUGH CROSS-EXAMINATION The accused also asked the witness about comments he made last year at a technology conference in the United States welcoming Milosevic's extradition to the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY). "Do you believe, despite your personal attitude, your work related to the indictment against me can be considered objective?" Milosevic asked. "I support international law but I do not believe that my objectivity was in any way prejudiced," Ball replied. "Since you are applauding my extradition do you know precisely under that law you (support) you may not consider me guilty in any respect unless I am proven guilty," Milosevic said. In a charged hearing, Milosevic repeatedly asked the witness about his report which was compiled from interviews with refugees, exhumation records and information from governments and international agencies on the mass exodus from Kosovo. "Do you assume a war is a very complex situation, and from many points of view it is chaotic, and therefore it is difficult to simplify and reduce it to three hypotheses?" Milosevic asked. His laborious and detailed questioning caused presiding judge, Richard May, to repeatedly admonish him for wasting time and using the floor to make speeches. The next witness expected to take the stand is international Balkans envoy Paddy Ashdown, the first major prominent political figure called to testify against Milosevic. The former British opposition Liberal Democrat leader, the international community's next peace envoy in Bosnia, is a familiar figure to Milosevic. He had face-to-face meetings with the ousted leader, accused of spearheading the deportation of 800,000 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo in March-June 1999 as part of a grand plan to create an ethnically pure "Greater Serbia." Milosevic has declined to plead to the charges against him. Not guilty pleas were entered by judges on his behalf. His trial started on February 12. He was extradited to The Hague in June last year. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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