[Spktyr]

Sorry. Hitler owns that one, and that's one record I really don't want to see anyone try to tie, let alone break.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Hitler owns that one, and that's one record I really don't want to see anyone try to tie, let alone break.

Jinghiz Khan owns the record for sheer speed and efficiency. In 1221, he captured the city of Herat and massacred every man, woman, and child in it, an estimated 1.6 million in a week. If he hadn't run out of bodies he would have hit Hitler's Jewish murders in a month.

[KDD]

The understandings of the United States and its NATO allies about the history of the Balkans unfortunately does not appear to include events prior to Tito's death in 1980, and Milosevec's ascendancy to the Presidency of Serbia in 1987. These events have been described above. However, as Bat Ye'or wrote, also described above, to the Serbs, the five preceeding centuries consisted of massacres, pillage, slavery and exile of Christians on the part of Muslims during the Islamic assault into Europe. When Aliya Izetbegovic, the leader of the Muslim faction in Bosnia stated in 1970: There can be neither peace nor coexistence between Arabia, the cradle of Islam and non-Islamic social and political institutions." and "The Islamic movement must, and can, take over power as soon as it is morally and numerically so strong that it can not only destroy the existing non- Islamic power, but also build up a new Islamic one", it should have set off alarm bells in the Capitals of Europe.

But it didn't. In the Bosnian wars of 1992-5 Muslim, Croat (Catholic) and Serb (Orthodox) factions fought for control of Bosnia. The United States intervened in the conflict decisively with air power on the side of the Muslims. The result was the Dayton Peace Accords, negotiated in Dayton, Ohio ansd signed in Paris September 14, 1995. These accords were signed by the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The accords set up a Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina consisting of two entities: a Croation-Muslim Federation and a Republica Srpska.

This arrangement has failed the test of time. In October 2002 an article in the International Herald Tribune realistically suggested that it is time to admit defeat. There is no Nation-State of Bosnia-Herzegovina, instead there are, in fact, three separate entities, since a Croat-Muslim Federation is as much a delusion as a country of Bosnia-Herzegovina. This in spite of billions of dollars of international aid, Western involvement in governance and Western troops. More than half the pre-war population was displaced during the 1992-1995 war and as of 1998 fewer than 15% had returned, in spite of the fact that return of refugees was a priority of the Dayton Accords.

[NilesJo]

Hitler owns that one...

Not for Muslims.

[Wraith]

Sorry Dude but Stalin has the record of about 21 million...

[SampleMan]

Stalin's got Hitler beat in numbers.

[NilesJo]

Just to clarify, my comment regarding Gunness Book of World Records was intended to be whimsical not a serious declaration of fact.

Naturally, I have no idea exactly who those bodies were nor can I say with knowledge that the Serbs were the perpetrators - I was just using a stereotype perception to inject some humor - apparently a failed attempt!

Next time I will tag it appropriately. : )