As far as I know, none of the various claims of evil conduct on the part of Serbs has ever withstood close examination. At the time of the buildup to Kosovo, a number of people from surrounding countries made statements supporting the Serbs on various forums including usenet. I remember one Hungarian from the Vojvodina province noting that Hungarians had NEVER had any major problems dealing with Serbs.
There were about 26 ethnic groups in the Yugoslav federation of which about three ever had any major problems dealing with Serbs and those were the three which were most serious about supporting Hitler in WW-II i.e. Albanians, Croats, and Bosnians.
Albanians are universally hated by everybody on Earth other than Albanians. Their basic program is to outbreed all other Balkan nations, averaging ten or twelve kids per family, ensconsing themselves into little corners of other peoples' countries and doing their breeding thing for 20 tears or so until they can claim to be a majority in the little corner, and then break the little corner off into "Greater Albania".
Basically, he had to; every other ethnic group in the province were being brutalized by the Albanians. Read it:
Typical highlights:
Ethnic Albanians in the Government have manipulated public funds and regulations to take over land belonging to Serbs. And politicians have exchanged vicious insults.Slavic Orthodox churches have been attacked, and flags have been torn down. Wells have been poisoned and crops burned.
Slavic boys have been knifed, and some young ethnic Albanians have been told by their elders to rape Serbian girls.
I mean, that's from a NY Times article in 1987 before there was any axe to grind over Kosovo, at least in America.
I mean, calling the AKs barbarians is almost an unjustifiable insult to the memory of guys like Attilla the Hun, Genseric the Vandal, Ragnar Lothbrook...
I am an ordinary American; I'm neither Serb, slavic, nor a member of the orthodox church. I have no pony in this race. I found the rationale for the actions in 94-95 questionable and when Kosovo began to heat up, made it my business to find out everything I could about the situation. What I found out was horrifying. Pretty much everything which the West has heard and read about the Balkans over the last dozen years is unadulterated BS, and we basically bombed a totally innocent Christian nation into the stoneage for the benefit of slammite narco terrorists, white trash and savages four years ago.
A typical if horrific example of the extent to which the Western public has been bullshitized is the story of the so-called Bosnian Serb 'death camp' at Trnopolja. Read it and weep.