Date: 03 Apr 1999 00:59:00 +0200
From: I-AFD_2-AT-anarch.free.de (Nico MYOWNA)
Subject: A few stats on the Balkans.


## News 31.03.99
## by wheeler-AT-prado.com

BALKAN STATS I

FROM A COLUMN BY TONY SNOW: Key members of the United States Senate sat
slack-jawed through a confidential briefing last Thursday from the Clinton
administration foreign-policy team. After the foreign-policy wise men
asserted that the United States has a moral imperative to stop the murderous
Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, one senator asked: How many Albanians
have Milosevic's troops massacred this year? The president's emissaries
turned ashen. They glanced at each other. They rifled through their papers.
One hazarded a guess: "Two thousand?" No, the senator replied, that was the
number for all of last year. He wanted figures for the last month - or even
the year to date, since the president had painted such a grisly picture of
genocide in his March 24 address to the nation. The senator pressed on.
How often have such slaughters occurred? Nobody knew. As it turns out,
Kosovo has been about as bloody this year as, say, Atlanta. You can measure
the deaths not in the hundreds, but dozens. (I'm not trying to deny
Milosevic's brutality here; only to provide some comparisons.) More people
died last week in Borneo than have expired this year in Kosovar bloodshed -
more died in a single Russian bomb blast; in a single outburst of violence
in East Timor; in a single day in Rwanda. China has been bloodier this year.

BALKAN STATS II

--Estimated number of persons killed in Iraq due to American-led sanctions:
over 1,000,000
--Estimated number of persons killed in the Sudan over the past 15 years:
1,500,000
--Estimated number of persons killed in Rwanda over the last five years:
500,000
--Estimated number of persons killed in Chechnya: 80,000
--Estimated number of people dying each day around the world because of lack
of water, clothing, shelter, food or medicine: 100,000
--Estimated number of people in the world who go to bed hungry: 800,000,000
--Estimated number of persons killed in Kosovo last year: 2,000

BALKAN STATS III

--Estimate of new households watching CNN thanks to its war coverage:
472,000

BALKAN STATS IV

--Cost of America's 21 B-2 bombers: $42 billion
--Value of Yugoslavian GDP: $43 billion
--UN budget as a percentage of the Pentagon budget: 5%

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This is indead *a big diffrent* between Hitler and Milosevic.: It's seem that
it is an expulsion, not a genocide in Kosovo....

And the Zagreb Anarchist Newsletter show that there is an left-libertarian  
and pacifist opposition, who can work inside fixed, narrow limits (on the  
serbian side)....It seems that "the murder regimen" in Serbia and the "ge- 
nocide" is only a propaganda-ly of the US-department and the NATO.

On the other hand is the reason of Milosevic, the Kosovo have been since  
centuries a part of Serbia, wrong. 1389 have the serbian troops lost the  
battle on the Amselfield and the Kosovo to the turks; first 1849 and 1878  
arised the serbian nation from Turky again; and 1913 the Kosovo become  
after 524 years belonging to Turky a part of Serbia. Before the expulsion  
have lived only 8% Serbs, but 2% Turks and 90% Albanians in Kosovo.

And the NATO-speaker David Wilby have told to journalists that the NATO  
have known the plans about this expulsion 9-6 month before. But they  
wasn't able to prevent this actions....

Nico

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