Don't get me wrong. I never supported any campaign of ethnic cleansing, be it serbs, croats, muslims or any other ethnic group in the former Yugoslavia. Wouldn't have happened, if I was the commander in chief. ;)
The only thing I can say is, that it was a bloody and terrible civil war and these areas were battle zones and all parties were heavily involved in securing their territories during the war. Again, this is not an excuse. What I am trying to discuss is, why the war took place in the first place. That it was very violent and ugly, as civil wars bent to be in general, is well known.
Calling the few million serbs west of the Drina 'Milosevic's forces' is a very incompetent phrase, even for you.
Ok.
Milosevic ultimately controlled Serbs in Knin and Pale through supplies delivered from Serbia - he was the leader of the Serb nation, not just the Serb Republic.
Would you have followed a more enlightened course, not tied to divisive ethnic policies, then I wish it would have been you that succeeded Stambolic - but you would have been struggling against economic forces that many East European leaders have found impossible to face while maintaining their electability, and politics of division are, unfortunately, so much easier to conduct than politics of equality, especially when recent history provides such a fertile field in which to sow discord.