| Don't you think genocide is too strong a term for what happened in Kosovo?
To date, approximately 4200 bodies have been found in Kosovo. The report doesn't state which percentage of those were civilians and which were combatants, or which were Serbs and which were Albanians, or which were killed on purpose and which weren't. All we know is that in a period of about 2 years (1997 until June 1999), 4200 people were killed. That's still bad, but not surprising considering there was a war going on. In war, people get killed.
No matter how you look at it, that is not genocide. Genocide is the intentional extermination of an entire race. The Serbs may have committed a lot of atrocities, but they did not intend to exterminate the Albanian race. If they wanted to, they could have, they were a lot more powerful and had chemical weapons so I'm sure if they wanted to they could have killed all the Albanians.
I'm not trying to deny the occurence of crimes (whether by serbs or against serbs), I'm only saying that this was clearly not genocide and you shouldn't use that term, especially because it downplays the significance of the Holocaust which really was a genocide, or the Armenian genocide.
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