Right on. No doubt about it.
And the Utashe are not even comparable to any behavior on the part of Serbs.
Well, the ethnic cleansing by the Serbs did happen. Just because all three sides did it to each other in Bosnia doesn't make it okay that the Serbs did it. This corresponds directly to a third of the Ustashe's "final solution" for the Serbs of expel one third, convert one third to Catholicism and kill one third. Granted the orders to commit attrocities and massacres didn't come from the top as it did during the WW2 Ustashe regime, but enough paramilitary groups and spontaneous Serbian militias committed enough nastiness to muddy the Serbs' name. I've talked to several of the Serbs that took part in these crimes and a deep sense of remorse can be felt in their presence as well as a lack of life in their eyes. I'm certain that they're going to have to carry that burden the rest of their lives.
The Utashe horrified the Nazis with their cruelty, and stand alone in history, imo, as the most evil of all parties anywhere.
I whole heartedly agree. They placed 18 members of my family in a Serbian church in Krajina during WW2 and burned the church to the ground killing all of them.
May God bless their souls. +Memory Eternal.
They did the same to my family when they refused to be forcibly converted to Roman Catholicism. Of course, the man who began that program will soon be named a saint!