Kosovo Death Toll: Grossly Inflated

Kosovo
Death Toll: Grossly Inflated

Many times over the past eight years have I been asked about the actual number
of people killed in Kosovo during the NATO campaign of helping the terrorist
KLA's separatist agenda. Back in 1999, U.S. officials bandied about numbers
exceeding 100,000 and when pressed to provide evidence gleefully repeated
rumors of Serb crematoria and corpse-choked mines.



After NATO occupation forces entered the province in June, however, the alleged
genocide proved ephemeral. Just over 2,000 bodies were found, belonging to
Albanians as well as Serbs, Roma, and others who lived in Kosovo, killed by
NATO bombs, KLA terrorism, and yes, Yugoslav police and military. The total
number of bodies found was 2,788, including both Serbs and Albanians (several
mass graves were in fact those of Serbs massacred by the KLA). The
International Red Cross is listing another 2,047 persons as still missing,
"including approximately 500 Serbs, 1,300 Albanians and 200 members of
other ethnic groups."



This is a far cry from "an estimated 10,000 people, mostly ethnic
Albanians," which is used in every report about the occupied
province, including and especially those dealing with the constant KLA terror
against the remaining Serbs and other non-Albanians. The repetition is meant to
provide a justification for NATO intervention, but it also tends to bolster the
bogus case for independence claimed by the Albanian separatists. Little wonder,
then, that all the mainstream media keep repeating the 10,000 mantra.



Last week, however, a U.S.-based intelligence publication Defense &
Foreign Affairs,analyzed
the Kosovo death toll fraud, and showed conclusively that the figure of
10,000 Albanians has been a fabrication all along.



Every man, woman and child the U.S. forces kill in Iraq is transformed into an
"insurgent" by the magic of propaganda. That same propaganda turned
every KLA terrorist the Yugoslav forces killed - in battles raging for a year
before NATO bombers took the KLA side - into an innocent civilian, then
multiplied that number by three, five, ten, a hundred. The same thing was done
in Bosnia.



In both cases, numbers are meant to override reality. Iraqi body counts are
supposed to provide a metric of
"progress", covering up the reality of failure. In Bosnia, and
later in Kosovo, numbers were meant to provoke outrage, anger and shock,
blocking out rational thought and providing cover for aggression, occupation,
and support of unsavory client regimes. The greater the deception, the bigger
lie it required. Under the umbrella of those lies, the "democratic"
authorities in Croatia accomplished what their Nazi predecessors could not,
ethnically cleansing most Serbs; Alija Izetbegovic achieved his dream of
forcing the Muslims of Bosnia back into Islam, this time of the Saudi variety;
and the Albanians of Kosovo have at least temporarily restored the
"Greater Albania"of WW2, and set upon eradicating every trace of Serb
presence in the land.



Trouble is, what would have been possible a century or half a century ago -
because who could find out the truth, safely locked away in classified
archives? - is not so possible now. The lies are getting exposed after a few
short years. Sure, a lot of the damage has already been done, and not all of it
can be reversed. But the time between the lie and its exposure has shortened
exponentially. And once exposed, it is just a matter of time and willpower before
the edifice built on the lies is torn down. And maybe next time - for, given
the human worship of violence, there will be a next time - lies won't be
so easily believed in the first place.

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