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To: JBL who wrote (12162)	6/16/1999 6:50:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

JBL, A very reasonable, and honest, appraisal of events. <<You know that I believe this war was a fiasco, but I cannot agree with some of your interpretation of the facts we have so far. In particular, while your claim that "A lot of Albanians fled their villages due to Nato bombing and the intense fighting between KLA and Serbs...." is certainly true, I believe that the vast majority of refugees were forced by the Serb forces to leave their houses, and that there was indeed a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing. How else would you explain the apparently immense devastation to homes in Kosovo ? The KLA did not burn these houses, and it makes no sense that NATO could have bombed them either. It is a logical conclusion to infer that in a majority of cases, Serb forces did burn those houses. I am ready to reject collective blame and/or demonization of the Serb population. I am absolutely ready to question that a genocide took place, but I cannot believe that ethnic cleansing did not take place>>