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"The scale of these killings is absolutely appalling," said Mike Jendrzejczyk, the Washington director for Asia for Human Rights Watch.

The scale of the killings is hard to absorb: well over 300 are thought to have been killed within the span of a few months, wiping out a significant portion of the country's elephant population.

The sheer scale of the killings has unnerved many here.

But the scale of the killings may change allied minds.

As he spoke, the full scale of the killings began to emerge.

Thursday's verdict will be a reminder of the scale of the killings – some 100,000 people died in Bosnia alone, with other victims in Croatia and Kosovo – and of the glacial pace at which justice has arrived.

Riek W, who decided to abandon his post in the president's compound at the weekend as he feared for his life and was horrified at the murder of civilians, said that the scale of the killings was being covered up.

The task of burying the dead was made harder still by the scale of the killings, and by the fact that the deaths appeared to have been caused by exposure to chemicals whose effects were both frightening and not well understood.

The Bosnian Serb troops had tried to hide the scale of the killings by digging up bodies from mass graves and dumping them in a number of the so-called "secondary" grave sites.

The nature and scale of the killings remain highly contentious.

Alexander said he was shocked by the evidence of the massive scale of the killing at the camp and the small examples of the Nazis' inhumanity.