[GAB-1955]

Shooting prisoners of war is still a war crime, and shooting civilian males of military age is a war crime. Mladic still bears responsibility.

This was not a West-versus-Islam war; it was a Serbian nationalist movement fighting Croatian nationalist and Bosnian nationalist. The Serbs were not defending Western culture against Islam; they were trying to hold on to what they could of a Greater Yugoslavia and lost.

When Serbia faces the truth about what happened, there will be a basis for peace.

[zagor-te-nej]

Thousands as Serb civilians were killed in muslim held Sarejevo. Many more are still missing. Dozens of Serbian villages in and around Srebrenica were destroyed by Bin Laden friends. Ready to face those truths and use them as a basis for peace?

[ma bell]

this is the early stages of the war against islam with the encroachment and foothold needed into the underbelly of Europe. With this gain, you have access into Europe being so much simpler.

Game on?

[joan]

"and shooting civilian males of military age is a war crime"

They were members of the army. Those found to be dead include members of the army who went missing during the walkout/breakout after skirmishes throughout Serbian territory. They had many miles of Serbian territory to get through from the Srebrenica enclave until Muslim-held territory. The Serbs had an enormous number, described as 12,000 - 20,000 Bosnian Muslim men walking through their territory, using the wooded areas during the day and the roads at night.

You'd have to prove a substantial number of those killed weren't part of the army. Research has shown many of those killed have been fighters. And without autopsy results and filtering out battle deaths and accidents (mines, for example) the mainstream media and NATO governments are deliberately making this much bigger with extraordinary hype and attention for their own agenda in the Balkans.

[joan]

Look here. Even a Bosnian Muslim propagandist/film director describes those killed as soldiers and adds an extra thousand to the official numbers. Who are you to say they were civilians - do you have Bosnian Muslim army records - have you checked the names?

"There were 9,000 soldiers killed in Srebrenica in the eyes of the U.N. soldiers, who were supposed to protect them. But they didn't do shit. It's like watching those airplanes bang into the World Trade Center and not trying to save those people." - Danis Tanovic, Academy Award winner, Directors World, March 25, 2002

[Hoplite]

The Serbs as a nation are proving far more interested in clinging to their victimhood than moving towards a rational self interest model, as demonstrated by the representative sample here on FR.

This is their right, and so long as it doesn't adversely affect the neighbors, they can do whatever they want, explaining their increasing isolation from the rest of Europe however they see fit.

To quote a British diplomat when asked what the Western response to a Serbia radicalized by the loss of Kosovo: "So what?"

And "So what?" should be pretty much the standard response to all the Serbian revisionism surrounding their failed quest for Greater Serbia during the 1990's. I'm not saying that we don't care, but that the issue has moved beyond discussion boards to more suitable venues.

[infidel_and_proud]

Well, GAB, if it were just a case of nationalism , then why would two countries on the other side of the world be the main arms suppliers to the main protagonists?

Not only that, but IRAN and ISRAEL.

Think about it.

[infidel_and_proud]

Well, GAB, if it were just a case of nationalism , then why would two countries on the other side of the world be the main arms suppliers to the main protagonists?

Not only that, but IRAN and ISRAEL.

Think about it.