03-06-2006, 03:24 AM
abdul_bin_mao,
Check this from Raju Thomas,
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Back in the early days of the Yugoslav wars, I was keeping count. American news reports began with 17,000 killed in Bosnia in early January 1993 after 9 months of civil war, then 20,000 at the end of the month. In early February 1993, the number was 145,000 "dead or missing" which by the end of the month became 200,000 "dead or missing. " And then in early March 1993, the words "or missing" <b>were dropped and the number was established at 200,000 killed which</b> has been repeated like a mantra ever since. <b>General Satish Nambiar of India, who was the commander of the U.N. Protection Forces (UNPROFOR) during the period of March 1992 to March 1993, told me that he, his deputy General Lewis McKenzie, and his forces, did not witness any such level of killing. Former U.S. State Department official and head of the Yugoslav desk, George Kenney, assessed the total dead in Bosnia as somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000</b>.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think he did some math 30,000+50,000 = 80,000
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>To further understand the nature of such propaganda figures conjured up during the conduct of war, the West Pakistani army was declared to have killed 3 million Bengali civilians in East Pakistan during the struggle for independence, a propaganda figure that has entered some almanacs and books of facts. Back then the U.S. prevented a war crimes tribunal being set up, despite the fact that India had captured and detained all of the 92,000 West Pakistani forces at the end of the December 1971 Indo-Pakistani war</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Check this from Raju Thomas,
Link
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Back in the early days of the Yugoslav wars, I was keeping count. American news reports began with 17,000 killed in Bosnia in early January 1993 after 9 months of civil war, then 20,000 at the end of the month. In early February 1993, the number was 145,000 "dead or missing" which by the end of the month became 200,000 "dead or missing. " And then in early March 1993, the words "or missing" <b>were dropped and the number was established at 200,000 killed which</b> has been repeated like a mantra ever since. <b>General Satish Nambiar of India, who was the commander of the U.N. Protection Forces (UNPROFOR) during the period of March 1992 to March 1993, told me that he, his deputy General Lewis McKenzie, and his forces, did not witness any such level of killing. Former U.S. State Department official and head of the Yugoslav desk, George Kenney, assessed the total dead in Bosnia as somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000</b>.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think he did some math 30,000+50,000 = 80,000
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--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>To further understand the nature of such propaganda figures conjured up during the conduct of war, the West Pakistani army was declared to have killed 3 million Bengali civilians in East Pakistan during the struggle for independence, a propaganda figure that has entered some almanacs and books of facts. Back then the U.S. prevented a war crimes tribunal being set up, despite the fact that India had captured and detained all of the 92,000 West Pakistani forces at the end of the December 1971 Indo-Pakistani war</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->