STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK Last Autumn NATO spokesman Mark Laity, very begrudgingly and very shamefacedly, was forced to acknowledge that a total of some 2,300 bodies had been exhumed in Kosovo after the most exhaustive of international forensic examinations. and, to paraphrase Laity, those were likely to be the only ones unearthed. This despite the fact that NATO - and Human Rights Watch - had claimed, respectively, that 2,000 and 1.200 citizens of Kosovo had died *prior* to NATO's bombing. Furthermore, Laity was compelled to admit that: He had no idea of whose bodies had been discovered. That he had no idea of how they had died. That those bodies were buried between January of 1998 and roughly September of 1999; which is to say, a year and a quarter before NATO's war against Yugoslavia and at least three months afterward. Knowing as we now do that at least 1,300 ethnic Serbs have been murdered in Kosovo and an additional 1,3000 Serbs are missing; that, according to Roma (Gypsy) sources that at least 1,000 Roma are dead or missing and presumed dead; that entire ethnic communities, including the centuries-old Jewish community in the capital city, Pristina, the Egyptian community, the ethnic Turks, Goranci, Bosnians, Croats, Magyars and others have been targeted for expulsion and extermination, it seems amazing - if not in the least surprising - that the figure for Kosovo dead steadily increases from 1,200 to 2,300 to 3,200 to 4,000 - and beyond to astronomical numbers. The only problem for the proponents of "genocidairism' is that the International Committee for the Red Cross conducted two surveys in Kosovo - one in August of 1999 and the other in April of this year - that can only account for some 1,000 ethnic Albanians, of a population of over 2,000,000 Kosovo residents, that are recorded missing. So what accounts for, to use a fashionable phrase during the war, "the worst genocide since Hitler"? The answer is, bluntly, nothing. All the Trepca Mines and "refrigertaor trucks" tabloid ex post facto justifications for NATO aggression are so much tawdry war propaganda. What is not in dispute are the thousands of perfectly innocents civilians murdered in cold blood since NATO marched into the province with its KLA adjuncts in tow in June of 1999. Call it reality testing. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
