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To: bluester
Where do you get off thinking you're a Kosovo expert? All of your knowledge regarding Kosovo comes from watching TV and reading newspapers. You Slovenians don't know anything more about Kosovo than someone from USA or Canada.

The fact is, Racak was a hoax, Serb atrocities in Kosovo have been exagerated tenfold, atrocities against Serbs, gypsies, and moderate Albanians (you probably call them colaborators) have been hidden, and the saddest part of all is that some people equate defending your country from terrorists with genocide.

213 posted on 09/22/2001 7:55:55 AM PDT by Ungrateful
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To: Ungrateful
I never claimed I was an expert. But compared, to an average American, yes I can say I know a bit more about it. After all, we were part of Yugoslavia, and there are many Serbs, Albanians, Bosnian Muslims, Macedonians, Montegrins living in Slovenia, many of them that migrated from other republics in the 1990's. And there were refugees from various republics here during the wars as well. They had many "interesting" things to tell, their experiences and fight for survival when their cities were being bombed. And testimonies of women being raped, that were being treated here. But then if you'r telling me that someone living several thousand miles away, that (mostly)heard about Yugoslavia for the first time in the 1990's and that can't separate Slovenia, Slavonia, Slovakia and the republics from ex Yugoslavia knows more then me who was living in it, well then be my guest.

I don't say that some people here don't know what they're talking about, some certainly know a lot and more then I do (at least if I believe what experience they claim to have), but I just see a lot of prejudice, one sided views and even hatred towards Muslims who also happened to be victims of terrorist-like attacks and killings, and some just don't like to accept that fact as it goes against their general view of how it's supposed to be, even ignoring certain facts.

214 posted on 09/22/2001 9:00:30 AM PDT by bluester
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