масштабы "геноцида" албанцев: а ведь заявляли о "десятках и сотных тысяч"...


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Отправлено Алексей Чумаков 04:50:30 10/06/2000:

 
GENEVA (Reuters) — The International Committee of the Red Cross has said
 
that nearly 3,400 people
 
are still missing in Kosovo, the vast majority ethnic Albanians.
 
 
The total, which includes 300 people, mostly Serbs, who disappeared after
 
the end of fighting between
 
Serb and ethnic Albanian forces, is up from a figure of 2,987 missing
 
reported by the Swiss- runhumanitarian agency in February.
 
 
The ICRC said the missing comprised 2,018 people, most of them ethnic
 
Albanians, reported to have been arrested by the
 
Yugoslav army or abducted by Serbs, 370 people allegedly abducted by the
 
Kosovo Liberation Army or ethnic Albanians and
 
980 people whose whereabouts were unknown.
 
 
Violence has dogged Kosovo since it came under the control of NATO and
 
the United Nations a year ago on June 12 after a
 
NATO-led bombing campaign led to the withdrawal of Serb forces who had
 
been oppressing the province's ethnic Albanianmajority.
 
 
The Geneva-based ICRC gave the latest figures at a news conference where
 
it announced the launch of its first book of the
 
missing for Kosovo that lists 3,368 persons whose names were provided by
 
families.
 
 
The 200-page document, listing the names in chronological and alphabetical
 
order, is also available on the ICRC Web site
 
www.familylinks.icrc.org, the agency said.
 
 
The ICRC's head of Balkans operations, Andreas Wigger, said that many of
 
those reported missing were probably dead and
 
that the agency's rate of success in tracing the missing had fallen.
 
 
"It is an unfortunate fact that, at a certain stage, most of the peoplereported
 
missing are unfortunately dead," he told the newsconference.
 
 
In all, the ICRC said 4,941 people were reported missing by their families
 
between January 1998 and May 15 2000. It had
 
clarified the fate of 1,573 people, including 199 confirmed dead and 1,374
 
confirmed alive, of whom the agency said it hadvisited 1,306 people in prison.
 
 
Wigger said the ICRC had no figure for the number of people killed in the
 
conflict.
 
 
The United States has estimated that Serb forces killed about 10,000
 
Kosovo Albanians between March and June 1999.
 
 
But Wigger said that most aid agencies and local human rights groups in
 
Kosovo had reduced their estimates of the number of
 
dead or missing to about 4,000 from around 12,000 initially.
 
 
International investigators said last November that they had unearthed2,108
 
bodies from nearly 200 mass grave sites inKosovo.
 
 


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