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To: Dayuhan who wrote (36756)	5/3/1999 4:19:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I also know how thoroughly the civilian population can be caught in between. Ah, yes, indeed -- that is the most tragic thing of all to witness, all those perfectly decent folks caught there, between the devil and the deep blue sea. And the worst part, for them, often comes after the war, when the bombs stop falling and nobody is interested in them any more..... Still, I doubt you would or could have seen the deportation of Kosovars on such a scale, had they been armed as well as the Chechens. Like the Chechens, they might have simply fled to the villages when the cities were attacked, and back to the cities when the villages were attacked, but never straying that far from home. And thanks to the extended family system, they would not have died of starvation and/or exposure. But who knows? Maybe most Kosovars were armed -- in the way that you and Lather are armed. We can never wind the tape back to the beginning and see what might have happened if... Joan Edit: P.S. I would NOT assume, in any event, that the Serbs would outdo the Russians "by a considerable margin." Remember, the Russians carpet-bombed Grozny, and when they finally took it, there was a veritable orgy of murder and looting. And afterwards they bombed countless villages into complete rubble, etc. Perhaps the atrocities were not stressed that much in our press (I don't know, I was in Chechnya at the time). Yeltsin was our buddy, after all.