The Lessons of History
Tony Blair, BBC News, May 1999: “It is no exaggeration to say what is happening in Kosovo is racial genocide. No exaggeration to brand the behaviour of Milosevic’s forces as evil.”
New Statesman, October 2004: Why does Tony fear the G-word?
“The people of Darfur have been murdered, raped, forced to leave their land and abandon their livelihoods. Yet the British government says that claims of genocide are exaggerated.”
70,000 dead in Darfur at last count. A Kosovo body count is difficult to come by but it seems it’s considerably less than 70,000.
Posted on February 1st, 2005 at 1:35 pm
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