matthias wrote:
Southern, to be honest neither of us know the true numbers..... however I would put them at over 30000 thousand
The US administration accepts the (exaggerated) number of 10000 and you put them at 30000?
matthias wrote:
the other factor is how these people were killed.
The KLA guerillas were killed during the battle by shooting.Their civilian victims were mostly killed in other ways.I do not know if you have noticed a fashion of beheading Serbs which reappeared in the '90s after it had shocked everybody in the '40s.
matthias wrote:
muslims who were unharmed and shot in the back of the head.. No state has the right to execute without a trial... one thing to put them in jail another to kill them.. you cannot kill anybody that is unharmed.. those are rules of engagement...any country that breaks this rule is guilty of war crimes
We are talking here about guerillas.They have not signed the treaty for war prisoners.Do you have any illusion what happens to US soldiers who fall in hands of Iraqi guerillas?Do you think they enjoy the full rights of the treaty for prisoners of war?
Or US troops respect the treaty when facing unarmed guerillas?
matthias wrote:
tw Im a huge supporter of America and its war on terror, however in this case they and most in EU fu*ked up
Exactly.Grounding Kosovo is war in favour of terror,not against terror.
Dice wrote:
In the 4th to 3rd centuries BC, it was the territory of the Thraco-Illyrian tribe of the Dardani, forming part of the kingdom of Illyria. The Illyrians, who contained according to Ptolemy's map a tribe named Albanoi and the town Albanopolis
Illyrians were the ancient Albanians.It is true,I admit that.Not very civilized folks back then but they had the luck that Greek historians who lived just in the south of them mentioned them,so their traditions were known.
Dardanoi were different.Maybe they were Slavs.They were very likely ancestors of the Slavs who now call themselves Macedonians.
Thraces lived where now is south Bulgaria and north-east Greece.Great nation with very interesting traditions,they gave many gods to greek mythology.It is likely their descedants still survive in the same places and if you go there they have retained even some facial characteristics apart from linguistic and culture elements.