don't speak the local language
never heard of the place until they were sent there
were force fed lies from the start
and were carefully escorted around
knows exactly whose blood he saw
knows the identities of bodies no one else can id
knows exactly what happened 5 years prior in a place he never heard of
knows exactly what locals said in a language, he can't read, can't understand, doesn't even know one song
knows precise aspects of local culture and mores despite never having read a novel, poem,or short story written by one of the world famous local authors...
knows all the locals opened up to him ( well at least his translators) because he was such a sensitive person...despite the fact that he was the member of a brutal foreign military occupation force supporting the local KKK/SLA/Black Panthers.
Homeagain has carefully constructed a version of events which suits his (apparent) racist predilictions. Any subsequent information which contradicts his world view is imply dismissed and a evil conspircy.
knows exactly whose blood he saw
ICMP/ICTY did that work. That's their job. I trust them. You say you don't because they contradict the Serb Party Line.
knows the identities of bodies no one else can id
When you find 125 machinegunned bodies wearing Bosnian uniforms or carrying Bosnian IDs, or Bosnian money, and they're all males between the ages of 12 and 90, and they're blindfolded and have their hands tied behind their backs with barbed wire, you may not know the names of the individual dead, but you can take to the bank that they were Muslims or at least fighting on the side of the Bosnian government and they were executed. They can't be precisely ID'd by name because, well, you guys took their IDs before putting bullets in their brains.
knows exactly what happened 5 years prior in a place he never heard of
Relies on international investigators who present evidence in a court of law rather than eating whatever line of crap comes from Serb journalists last week
knows exactly what locals said in a language, he can't read, can't understand, doesn't even know one song
See above about court evidence and own-eyes. As for the songs, life is too short to listen to Serbian techno-folk.
knows precise aspects of local culture and mores despite never having read a novel, poem,or short story written by one of the world famous local authors...
No, I'm not all knowing about the local culture. BFD. You guys are gluing yourself to Stavka, and he's no more literate in the local culture than I am. How convenient.
knows all the locals opened up to him ( well at least his translators) because he was such a sensitive person...despite the fact that he was the member of a brutal foreign military occupation force supporting the local KKK/SLA/Black Panthers.
Well, you guys want this corner of FreeRepublic to be a little Republika Srpska, a Serb only club, a rotting hell hole where you can repeat lies to each other with impugnity and without contradiction all day long and forget the huge amounts of innocent blood dripping from your flag. And I'm pi$$ing you off by injecting some reality. But guess what? You can't tie my hands behind my back and blindfold me and stick me into a barn. You just have to live with me.
Peace through superior firepower. In this case, the truth.