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William Meecham <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:31:53 -0800
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Trecy, Trecy, are you sure that you're not on the wrong list,
this corporate media line would be more at home in the corp. media.
wcm
>
> James Bissett, Canada's ambassador to Yugoslavia wrote:
>
> > Our political leaders and much of the media have said that the bombing of
> > Yugoslavia was launched to stop ethnic cleansing and atrocities. This is a
> > myth. All the evidence shows that there were approximately 2,000 casualties
> > in Kosovo up to the time of the NATO bombing -- by any standard, not an
> > extraordinary number considering that a civil war had been raging since
> > 1993. By contrast, the number of Yugoslavian civilians killed by the NATO
> > bombing is reckoned to be well above 2,000.
>
> Hey, what's this heresy doing here? All useful idiots of Yugoslav propaganda
> know that no one was killed by the Serbs--it's all Western bigotry. Damn
> Canadians. First Brian Adams, now this.
> >
> > The UN estimated that close to 200,000 ethnic Albanians were displaced
> > before the NATO air strikes -- again, a deplorable figure but not surprising
> > given that these people were driven from their homes as a result of the
> > civil war. After the NATO bombs began to fall, more than 800,000 Kosovars
> > were forced to flee from Serbian retaliation and from NATO bombs. So much
> > for humanitarian intervention.
> Yeah, and all those Kosovar Albanians keep trying to tell anyone who will
> listen how angry they feel towards NATO, but it's just no use.
>
> --
> Tresy Kilbourne
> Seattle WA
>

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