Post by Odin of Ossetia on Jan 10, 2005 18:54:05 GMT -5
It looks like no more than around 80 000 people (as opposed to the 250 000 ever so often claimed) from all sides were killed during the recent war in Bosnia-Hercegovina; see the article below (via the link). This figure does make sense, for, in addition to the supportive sources given in the article itself, one must point out that "only" 10 000 are actually claimed to have been killed during the separatist war in Croatia.
Also makes one think about all those huge inflated numbers of war dead from the various recent wars in the Third World, most notably the "900 000" presumably killed in Rwanda during a period of a mere 100 days and often using primitive means (what yet again begs the question if that estimate is even realistic), and the "3 000 000" alleged dead in the Congo (remember reading about it in newspapers - one year ago it was one million, few months ago it jumped to two million, a few weeks ago this all of the suddenly increased to three million alleged fatalities).
My point here is that, I do not deny that these were/are very bloody conflicts by any means, but huge inflations of the body counts reported by the mass media and/or the international aid agencies, and later frequently copied by the scholastic community (usually without any reservations or questions about their reliability), do not do any good to anybody.
Are not these numbers significantly upped by the Western sources in order to belittle the WWII dead, who were especially numerous from the Slavic countries? With regard to this phenomenon taking place during the recent Bosnian War, there was/is surely a propagandistic political motive behind such mis-reporting too.
Reporting hugely inflated numbers by the Western mass media also fails to enhance its, already very questionable, credibility.
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Bosnian War Dead Myth Debunked: Chronicles Was Right, Again[/glow]
by Srdja Trifkovic
www.chroniclesmagazine.org/News/Trifkovic04/NewsST122804.html