tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17149992.post7259475849778494544..comments2023-11-05T12:34:12.796+01:00Comments on Conflict and Compromise: Reasons why Kosovo should not be recognized nowWim Roffelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05950733237377413606noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17149992.post-63562182888335063472008-02-22T13:54:00.000+01:002008-02-22T13:54:00.000+01:00Stories, please come with arguments if you have so...Stories, please come with arguments if you have something to say. <BR/><BR/>The only argument I read in your comment is about the number of killed. I can't find any Red Cross source that mentions 10,000. What I do know is where the 10,000 figure comes from. It is from the <A HREF="http://www.amstat.org/publications/chance/pdfs/154.ball.asher.pdf" REL="nofollow">report by Patrick Ball</A>. He used the data that were collected by four different organisations that interviewed Albanian refugees during the war. He then united those lists in big list - while trying to remove the doubles - and made an estimate of how many casualties would have been on none of the four lists. Immediately after the war this was the best estimate available. But removing doubles is a very inaccurate process if you have only names. Also people tend to run away when there is shooting and they often won't go back to see whether someone is really dead.<BR/><BR/>So I think it is at the present time better to estimate the number of killed by adding the number of bodies found and the number of people reported missing. The Red Cross seems to think the same as they <A HREF="http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/kosovo-news-290807!OpenDocument" REL="nofollow">list only 2047 people </A> on their <A HREF="http://www.icrc.org/Web/doc/siterfl0.nsf/htmlall/familylinks-kosovo-eng" REL="nofollow">list of missing people</A> and don't add any note that they believe there must be more missings.<BR/><BR/>Serbia doesn't threaten to make a complaint against Kosovo for the ICJ. It wants to make a complaint against the countries that recognize Kosovo.Wim Roffelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05950733237377413606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17149992.post-52580681534599724752008-02-21T22:07:00.000+01:002008-02-21T22:07:00.000+01:00You are lying when you say you support independenc...You are lying when you say you support independence for Kosova.<BR/><BR/>You have in different forums expressed extreme, ultranationalist, pro- Milosevic, anti- democratic views that only the MOST extreme Serbs have.<BR/><BR/>You are also very good in manipulating sources and numbers. E.g. you claim only 5 000 Albanians were killed while International Red Cross say at least 10 000 were killed.<BR/><BR/>Who brings Kosova for International Court of Justice? Serbia, those who for 12 years have supported Mladic and Karadzic, please give me a breake<BR/><BR/>When was this written? When I read this I get the impression this was written before independence. Remember we have entered a one way street. Imposibble to reverse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com