[joan]

The Muslims started the killing in both places. The Muslims drew first blood in Sarajevo, Bosnia when they killed Nikola Gardovic, a Serb member of a wedding party (he was the groom's father), in March 1992. Besides him being killed others were injured by the gunfire.

And in Kosovo, the KLA initiated the violence, and even kidnapped, tortured, and killed Albanians loyal to the Yugoslav/Serbian government.

Muslim paramilitary, mafia, thugs, and criminals were active in threatening, terrorizing, and killing Serbs right on the brink of the war in both places.

[Smartass]

"The Muslims started the killing in both places."

The Ottoman Turks, who were Muslims, started the killing when they invaded the Balkans in 1300/1400AD. No matter what, who, or how...the Slavs have never, nor will ever forgive, or forget.

[johnnyBbad]

The Muslims drew first blood in Sarajevo, Bosnia when they killed Nikola Gardovic, a Serb member of a wedding party (he was the groom's father), in March 1992.

The killing of Gardovic, carried out by the gang led by Ramiz Delalic (aka Celo), fanned the flames of tension but can hardly be called the opening shots of the war, or a Muslim offensive worthy of the kind of reponse it got from the Serbs.

Kosovo is another matter. The KLA did indeed start the fighting, hoping that the Serbs would lash out against civilians as they did in Bosnia in order to drive more people into the KLA's ranks. Same tactic Tito used against the Nazis and Ustashe.

It worked in both cases.