"U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen has been derisively cited as claiming on May 16 that 100,000 Kosovar males had been murdered. Cohen actually said this: "We've now seen about 100,000 military-aged men missing. They may have been murdered."(3) His comments echoed the concerns expressed earlier by a range of other officials in the early weeks of the war. In all of them, the 100,000 figure was clearly presented as an estimate not of murdered men, but of "missing" or "unaccounted-for" men -- something very different, although few reporters displayed an interest in pushing for a clarification of the ambiguous terms.(4) The U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes, David Scheffer, said on April 19 that "We have upwards of 100,000 men that we cannot account for" and "we have no idea where they are now."(5) State Department spokesman James Rubin expressed "grave concern" about the fate of 100,000 men, also referring to them as "unaccounted for," and adding: "Based on past practice, it is chilling to think where those 100,000 men are. We don't know ..."(6) NATO spokesman Jamie Shea on April 20 likewise referred to "100,000 Albanian men of fighting age ... unaccounted for," and suggested that of these, more than 3,500 might have been executed.(7) President Clinton spoke of the Serbs having "killed thousands" in Kosovo.(8)"
"Бій відлунав. Жовто-сині знамена затріпотіли на станції знов"
