Hi Katha:
>Yoshie, you seem skeptical about the level of violence in Kosovo. you
>seem to be saying the media is exaggerating it -- first to justify
>intervention against Serbs, now to justify long-term presence to keep '
>"barbarians" from killing each other. Is that really what you think? I
>just want to be sure I'm getting your point.
As to the level of violence, the media did exaggerate it a great deal with
regard to Serbs (but till now have either kept silent or vastly
underreported it with regard to Albanians), using such inaccurate words as
'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing,' asking us to believe that Serbs are
killing or expelling all Albanians because they are Albanians.
The media coverage has distorted not simply the level but the nature of
violence, which the media like to portray as a matter of 'ancient ethnic
hatred,' not a question of politics. Who tried to beat up the Roma boy and
his father? All Albanians present in the camp? Or only those who have
either always subscribed to the KLA-type separatism or been propagandized
into adopting it in the course of war? The article suggests the former
("All Albanians are savage"), which we should reject.
Yoshie
