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http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/kosovo/ and BBC News, “UN
Condemns Kosovo Atrocities,” BBC News Online, October 2, 1998,
via http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/184698.stm.
25. Cited in Human Rights Watch, “A Week of Terror.”
26. “Kosovo—Women, Children Massacred,” Reuters, September 30,
1998. Cited in ibid.
27. Federal Government of Yugoslavia, Press Statement, October 2, 1998.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Intercoder reliability 1.0 (22/22).
31. According to the OSCE monitoring regime, most violations between
October 1998 and January 1999 were KLA provocations. As stated by
Gabriel Keller of the OSCE observer mission, “Generally speaking, I
would say that the KLA is responsible for most provocations, and the
Yugoslav authorities and Serb police are responsible sometimes for
exaggerated actions or are reacting heavy-handedly.” Cited in CNN
News, “Kosovo Rebels Ambush Police, Take Soldiers Hostage,”
CNN.com, January 8, 1999, via http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/
europe/9901/08/kosovo.01/index.html.
32. The Yugoslav soldiers were released five days later on January 13,
1999. CNN News, “Kosovo Rebels Release Yugoslav Soldiers,”
CNN.com, January 13, 1999, via http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/
europe/9901/13/kosovo.01/index.html.
33. CNN News, “Kosovo Rebels Ambush Police.”
34. According to Hasim Thaci, “They set out to commit atrocities,
because a key KLA unit was based in this area,” in Allan Little, Moral
Combat: NATO at War (London: BBC2, March 12, 2000). Also see
Human Rights Watch, “Yugoslav Government War Crimes in Racak”
(Human Rights Watch, 1999), via http://www.hrw.org/press/1999/
jan/yugo0129.htm.
35. Human Rights Watch, “Yugoslav Government War Crimes.”
36. Bellamy, Kosovo and International Society, 114.
37. Ibid.
38. Human Rights Watch, “Yugoslav Government War Crimes.”
39. Renaud Girard, “Kosovo: Obscure Areas of the Massacre,” Le Figaro,
January 20, 1999, http://www.balkanpeace.org/wcs/wct/wctk/
wctk02.html.
40. Bellamy, Kosovo and International Society, 114.
41. Michael McAuliffe and Sandra Bartlett, The Road to Racak: CBC
Radio News World at Six Documentary, CBC, May 23, 2000.
42. CNN News, “At Least 15 Rebels Killed in Renewed Kosovo
Fighting,” CNN.com, January 15, 1999, via http://www.cnn.com/
WORLD/europe/ 9901/15/kosovo.02/index.html.
43. CNN News, “NATO Convenes over Kosovo Massacre,” CNN.com,
January 17, 1999, via http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9901/
17/kosovo.01/.