the osce monitors were deployed and a ceasefire was declared. now, it was widely claimed after the 1999 nato bombing attack that it was the serbs who violated the agreement and led to the breakdown of the agreement and the upsurge in fighting. and that's what caused the upsurge in fighting that led to the nato attacks. we now know that's false. that, in fact, it was not the serbs who caused the breakdown of the agreement. it was the kla and we have it from the very best sources. one of these sources is a general, a german general, who played a key role in the war. he was actually present at the -- some of the events that led to the holbrooke agreement. he was always key prosecution witness against milosevic at the war crimes trial and at the milosevic trial, he acknowledged that the serbs basically implemented the terms of the holbrooke agreement in good faith. they withdrew their troops as required. they announced -- they implemented a ceasefire. and it was kla attacks basically that led to the breakdown of the agreement. he stated this repeate

on march 19th, shortly after the breakdown of negotiations, the osce monitors began to withdraw on the assumption that bombing was coming, and they didn't want to be injured. the very next day serbia began a major offensive in kosovo. leading to ugly atrocities. the bombing actually commenced on march 24th leading to an intensification of serb atrocities much worse than the previous round of as atrocities, and over the next ten weeks about 10,000 albanians were killed by the serb security forces, okay? this is a significant figure because up until this time the total number of casualties on both sides, both military and civilian, serb and albanian was 2,000, all right? how many albanians had been killed has never been fully accounted for. i would estimate it was probably a little under a thousand since the albanians, it seems, accounted for fewer victims according to lord robertson than the serbs. and over the next ten weeks about 10,000 were killed meaning that probably the increase in deaths was about tenfold. and this, this was in a ten week period as opposed to about a year and a h