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Was not the RS, by definition, areas controlled by the SDS?

No. It was the areas that the SDS claimed, regardless of whether Serbs were a majority therein or not.

When the RS declared independence from Bosnia, it did the same thing that Bosnia did to Yugoslavia.

Wrong again - Bosnia didn't start to ethnically cleanse Serbs as the SDS was doing to non-Serbs because it wasn't based upon some whacked out racist worldview which should have been laid to rest after World War 2.

You can't get your facts straight, so your understanding of what happened in the Balkans will suffer accordingly, and that, Bob, is the end of the story.

Just a reminder, though, Bob - you live in my world, the real world, not your little fantasy one. Try to deal with it in a more mature and constructive manner than you are used to displaying in your interactions with me.

It was the areas that the SDS claimed...

Oh, you mean just like the newly created state of Bosnia was the area that Izetbegovic claimed, regardless of the wishes of the Serb population NOT to be a part of it? I get it now.

Bosnia didn't start to ethnically cleanse Serbs...

Oh no, Izetbegovic just wanted to sit down and have a picnic with the Serbs, right? Hmmm, then what do you think he meant in his Islamic Declaration, originally written in 1970 and then re-published in 1990, when he said such wonderful things as:

"There can be neither peace nor coexistence between the Islamic faith and non-Islamic social and political institutions."

Or what about...

"...the Islamic movement must and can, take over political power as soon as it is morally and numerically so strong that it can not only destroy the existing non-Islamic power, but also to build up a new Islamic one..."

In what direction did he want to take Bosnia? Hmmm...

"Turkey as an Islamic country used to rule the world. Turkey as an imitation of Europe represents a third-rate country, the like of which there is a hundred in the world."

Gosh, those crazy evil Serbs didn't want to be a part of that. I can't imagine why...

Try that real world on for size, hypocrite.

Sorry, the Croats began cleansing the Serbs in a village just outside of Pakrac beginning in 1987, and militarily cleansed the Serbs in 1989. I have lost contact with Ms. G.D who was sent to the states to finish her school in 1987. I remember while home on leave talking to this cute high school girl from Serbia (Western Slavonia) who tells me her family was forced to leave. I did not understand th reason, as she didnt disclose to me what happened til 1992, when I began getting to know her well during our weekly trips to Hamilton and Toronto for Serbian food.

That is when G----ka told the entire story of how the Croats began marking homes with the Ustasa symbols and literally stoning the Serbian schoolkids enroute to school. Being punched, bruised and bloodied during their walks to school and home. It all stopped when the local Croatians armed and forced out the Serbs. Her brother and father returned to their village outside of Pakrac in 1991 with their Serbian neighbors, but this time, they brought their weapons and were organized. They went their and kicked out the Croats that were Ustase.

Their were Croats that stayed, and they stayed because they did not do anything to their Serbian neighbors accept allowing that cleansing to occur against their Serbian neighbors. Differance is, the Serbs disarmed and confiscated ALL weapons from non-Serbs to further prevent ANY acts of war against anyone else.