§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the letter of 4 May 2000 from the Minister of State, the hon. Member for Leicester, East (Mr. Vaz), to the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames), what estimate he has made of the number of Kosovar Albanians killed in Kosovo by forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the year leading up to June 1999; and what the basis is for the figure. [122638]
§ Mr. Vaz[holding answer 25 May 2000]: We estimate that at least 10,000 Kosovar Albanian civilians were killed in Kosovo between June 1998 and June 1999. This figure is based upon a variety of sources, including debriefing of refugees, eye witness accounts, reports from international and non-governmental organisations and the media.