"How fucking convenient that talking about scorched earth extermination of a people is not in the scope of your subject, although the military aims of the same group of people certainly is."
If you're not even interested enough in what you have to say to remember you said it, I don't feel any need to read or engage with it. Enjoy being rude and ignorant by yourself.
p.s. Yes, the figures changed. At the time I wrote the reply, 1400 was the official figure. And as I'm not a time traveller, and as I trust most people have the intelligence to note the date something was written, I didn't think I needed to explain further.