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To: CPC
Unfortunately in this kind of warfare setting, everyone was fair game. Everyone at one time fought, from early teens to elderly. The muslims employed female snipers from Czech Republic on many occassions, the muslims even showed grannies how to use hand grenades.

So no, there was no immunity which explains WHY both sides shot AT EVERYONE. Because, at one time or another, that person had OR WILL pick up a weapon and will try to kill you. Better get them now then later. ahem, pre-emptive strike is what it's called now.

Out of all the years I've been reading and posting on this forum, I have never seen anybody so precisely and directly address such a very real and neglected aspect of many of the "civilian" casualties that happened in Bosnia so eloquently and with such an economy of words.

Of course Serbian "civilians" were killed for the same issues. The major difference is, the Serbs didn't/couldn't go running crying to Christiane Albright at CNN or whatever the hell her last name is. The Serbs understood the score and fought back.

The only Americans that cry about the "indiscriminate" nature of the Serbs' warfare are either people completely ignorant of the nature of Bosnia's combat theater or people that are receiving some sort of monetary compensation for climbing up on a soap box and thumping their cheasts. Their only goal is to get enough of the indifferent masses to cry them a little bitty river just wide enough keep their BS hidden agenda flowing down stream.

By this point, I'm indifferent to either of them. The Truth simply is not on their side and it's really not my concern anymore.

10 posted on 08/19/2004 6:14:29 AM PDT by getoffmylawn ("A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy." - Early Wynn, Chicago White Sox Pitcher)
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To: getoffmylawn
When you talk about war in Bosnia you have to look at percentage of civilian casualties.All sides did commit war crimes , but Serbs commited 98 percent of all war crimes , they wiped out towns such as Bjeljina,Foca,Visegrad,Srebrenica and Vukovar in Croatia this were organized operations in which battalion size units were involved and thousands of civilians were killed if you look at Bosnian and Croatian side they commits war crimes too but this was done by individuals or small groups and they killed not more than ten people at the time . In Sarajevo during the war about 50 Serb civilians were killed by Bosnian Army soldiers in Srebrenica about 10 000 Bosnian Muslim civilians were killed by Serb soldiers in Bjeljina about 3 000 Bosnian Muslim civilians were killed by Serb Soldiers and in Vukovar about 3 000 Croatian civilians were killed by Serb soldiers . This are numbers that are coming out of International investigations for war crimes . Facts are out there , don't let religious hate make you lie to your self and others .
11 posted on 04/07/2005 5:09:23 PM PDT by Izvidac
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