This new item from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) comes from the Association's Science and Human Rights Program. The report offers a new approach to human rights analysis by "contextualizing the claims made by witnesses with analysis of objective administrative data," namely statistical records of a particular border post, official records of refugee movements, and surveys conducted in refugee camps. The report concludes that the mass movement of refugees in Kosovo in the spring of 1999 "was most likely the result of a deliberate Yugoslav policy of 'ethnic cleansing.'" The full text of the report, with several appendices, is available in HTML format.
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