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The Croatians, dear Hoplite fought in urban settings. How many of your damaged or destroyed Croatian churches were destroyed as overt acts or from collateral artillery damage? I do know that all those Bosnian cases were done during an active shooting war. Hell, if you count all those German churches destroyed during WW2 via allied collateral damage (Like Mt. Casino) we of the West would hold the record.

I do know this--100% of those Serbian Churches were destroyed in peace time UNDER the nose of NATO occupation-peace-whatever forces-by Albanian Muslims.

I do know that all those Bosnian cases were done during an active shooting war.

Destroying someone else's cultural monuments is not something you do when there is shooting going on in your immediate vicinity - it is a surreptitious activity mostly done when nobody is looking.

The best example of this is the destruction of Banja Luka's non-Orthodox sites:

NAME OF SITE - DATE OF DESTRUCTION:

ISLAMIC SACRED SITES

Sefer-Beg Mosque - 09.04.93
Ferhadija Mosque - 07.05.93
Arnaudija Mosque - 07.05.93
Mosque in Vrbanja - 11.05.93
Zulfikarova Mosque - 15.05.93
Behram-Efendija Mosque - 26.05.93
Mehdibeg Mosque - 04.06.93
Sofi Mehmed-Pasa Mosque - 04.06.93
Hadzi-Begzade Mosque - 04.06.93
Gazanferija Mosque - 04.06.93
Hadzi-Sabanova Mosque - 14.06.93
Hadzi-Kurt Mosque - 14.06.93
Hadzi-Perviz Mosque - 06.09.93
Hadzi-Osmanija Mosque - 08.09.93
Hadzi-Omer Mosque - 09.09.93
Hadzi-Salihija Mosque - 09.09.93

ROMAN CATHOLIC SACRED SITES

Church of St. Joseph at Trno - 24.10.91
Parish Church - 00.12.91
St. Bonaventura Cathedral - 31.12.91
St. Vincent Monastery - 00.12.92
St. Anthony of Padua Church and Franciscan Monastery - 07.05.95

There was no fighting of note in Banja Luka - it was a rear area in the Republika Srpska throughout the war, so the ethnic cleansing and concurrent destruction of non-Orthodox cultural institutions was not caused by armed confrontation between warring parties.

You can verify this pattern with the two following sources (homepages of the source material from my earlier post)
Source material for Orthodox churches in Croatia & Bosnia.
Source material for Catholic Churches in Croatia.

You will find the same is true whether you are looking at either party in the conflicts in Croatia or Kosovo - hell, you can even ask our own resident idiot, Zoran Smaic, about the destruction of religious buildings - he occasionally goes off about "minaret missiles" and the like.