Physical evidence and the testimony of witnesses establishes Milosevic as a genocidal tyrant. Any other premise is the same as stating the sky is green and the grass is blue.
Europe had allowed things to get out of control by recognizing the unilateral and unconstitutional secession of Slovenia and Croatia (the secession of 11 Southern states precipitated the U.S. Civil War - and this is exactly how the Yugoslav civil war started; by a forced and forceful withdrawal of the two republics from the union
You're speaking with a southerner (Southeast United States)- raised to believe secession is not contrary to the premise and promise of democracy.
Do you go to war over 4001 corpses, but not the millions in Rwanda? Just a question...
I'm sorry- I missed the volume of posts that you authored during the Rawandan massacre where you demanded intervention. Perhaps you can direct me to your efforts elsewhere if they were not posted here. Is there hypocrisy in your smuggness?
Maybe because you've only been here a week or two? But seriously you need to get over your Milosevic=Hitler obsession. He's no good guy but the entire Balkans had no good guys. I suggest you read "Burn This House".
No, physical evidence establishes that there were battles between armed factions and victims on all sides. There are mass graves of Serbs killed by Croats, Bosniaks, and Albanians. One investigator, a policeman from California, who was in Bosnia in 1997 and 1998 to search for mass graves of Muslims and Croats found dead Serb soldiers, shot in the backs of their heads instead, each and every time. Yet these graves were announced, before investigation, as graves of Muslims and Croats. The truth often counters the propaganda.
Yeah, those witnesses have lied so many times. The Trepca mines were claimed by "witnesses" to be the site of mass killings and dead bodies, but investigators found absolutely no signs of any killing or bodies - not even animal bones. Serbs have been tortured into confessing in Sarajevo court of having murdered Bosnian Muslim brothers. The brothers and their families were discovered alive almost five years later by the uncle of one of the imprisoned and convicted Serbs. One of the supposedly dead brothers was buying up sheep and cattle from his former Serb neighbors when the uncle was startled to see this "dead" man alive and well. The murder trial made international headlines, yet the Bosnian Muslims were living in Sarajevo the whole time and had even joined the army. So yeah, the witnesses LIE and a mountain of false accusations has been the norm for the Balkans. Further, the families of these alive-the-whole-time men, didn't care that innocent are blamed.
One Albanian 18-year-old girl named Rajmonda, who had joined the KLA, claimed in a running documentary before and during the war that Serbs had killed her little sister. The Canadian journalist went to Rajmonda's house a few months after the war and found the supposed dead sister alive and unscathed, the home intact, and all the family uninjured in the least.
I'm sorry- I missed the volume of posts that you authored during the Rawandan massacre where you demanded intervention.
Rwanda happened in 1994 and FreeRepublic wasn't around.