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.

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Tresy Kilbourne
Seattle WA