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By: filmovi

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By: Rado

Rado — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:09:12 +0000

Namaan is right. We Serbs are the true victims. Those sluts at Foca begged for us to rape them and now they want me in prison? Good thing my guards took little payoff in seeing me run away. Now I can get back to what I do best- rape, murder and singing the Serbian national anthem!

By: Namaan

Namaan — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:41:35 +0000

The West is in a quagmire in the Balkans and we do not know how to get out! The Serbs were blamed for everything, the niggers of the Balkans: not wanting to be murdered by Fascist Croats or Muslims like in WW2 and wanting to live together in one country.

Unfortunately, the pro-Muslim terrorist US regime has supported exactly a repetition of events in former Yugoslavia. Ths US war-mongers supported Bosnian Mujahadeen fighters and Albanian Muslim KLA terrorists, yet now are fighting an alleged “War on Terror” – rubbish! If the Bosnian Serbs are so guilty of everything bad in Bosnia, why were a third of the victims in the Bosnian bloodbath Serbian?

Whatever happens in the Balkans, there will be no future peace unless Serbs are treated fairly and the wrongs against them are righted. Future events will see the Serbs returning to their Kosovo and Metohija homeland, when the West loses interest, just like the Jews returning to Israel (accelerated as a consequence of their mas slaughter) and the liberation of Republika Srpska from the hands of EU dictators.

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By: Hajra

Hajra — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:52:03 +0000

Good point, truth be told. It is entirely possible the whole Mackenzie affair was a nasty propaganda fabrication. It was never investigated, the accusation wasn’t brought up even. An obvious reason would be that it was untrue from the start. I think I’ll try to sniff around the local media and discussions a bit more as to why isn’t this being brought up. Well, it was amateurish never to think of it before and only bring it up here, but I’m an average amateur internet user. It’s just discomforting to hear about this on the news a lot and then never again. It’s not like other UN generals did great favors to the bosniak side so they would be spared from slandering, so that explanation of the rumor doesn’t make much more sense.

As for the numbers, ICTY’s number is officially cca.102000 – true. The reasons stated are- double missing people reports, not surprising for a time of crysis. I personaly only heard the exaggerated figure of 200 000 just after the war, and it wouldn’t make sense that it was in operation during the war because the number was rising, no?! And, as to my knowledge, it always went for the total number of casualties.
Well, I’m only relieved with any ambiguity over any issues that is finaly resolved like this.

(uh, I just typed and lost a reply because I forgot the spam-protection entry, I should get used to it)

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:32:04 +0000

Completely agree that the majority of crimes in Bosnia were perpetrated by the Bosnian Serbs. It’s just that with time, the picture has become a lot less black and white. Just take the casualty figures. During (and immediately after) the war, the figure of 200,000 killed was commonly accepted, with the implicit undertanding that this referred to 200,000 Bosniaks killed by the Bosnian Serbs. However, research has shown the figure to be around 100,000, of which roughly half were civilians. Of these civilians Serbs accounted for something like 20%. Given their lower share of the population and the fact that they had the better armaments (at least initially), this doesn’t give the quite the same picture of one-sided slaughter (or “genocide” as is often used) as is often portrayed.

Either way, it is good that the perpetrators of crimes, no matter what magnitude, are prosecuted and it would be even better if they could keep them in jail once they’ve been sentenced.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:02:45 +0000

Owen and Hajra are of course referring to the trumped up Bosnian government smear campaign against the Canadian general of UN forced in Bosnia, Mackenzie. Basically, the Bosnian government accused Mackenzie of raping Bosniak women in Serb-run rape camps. Probably because they felt he didn’t support them strongly enough. Of course, no one has laid any creedence to it.

Owen and Hajras comments are a prime example of how propaganda (even discredited and nasty propaganda) refuses to die. Of course, it’s not the only example of such war-time propaganda which is perpetuated. Other examples include the “50,000 raped in Serb-run rape camps”, “200,000 Bosniaks killed”, etc.

By: KRS

KRS — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:53:17 +0000

Whoever thinks that the majority of all crimes in the Balkan wars were not committed by the Serb forces (JNA, paramilitaries, speacial police, etc) is naive and uninformed.

By: Owen

Owen — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:46:24 +0000

David’s concern to point out that atrocities were committed on all sides serves to divert attention from the fact that atrocities were systematically perpetrated predominantly by one side as part of the campaign of ethnic cleansing conducted in the multi-ethnic parts of Bosnia that were intended to be incorporated into Republika Srpska and the rape camps of Foca and many other places were elements in that general strategy.

David’s comment is reminiscent of a famous remark made by the prominent pro-Serb lobbyist and peacekeeper to whom Hajra may have been referring in her message.

The international community must not let people like Stankovic and his collaborators rub salt in the wounds of the people of Foca. At the same time the Canadian government needs to show its sensitivity towards the rape victims and their continued suffering by facilitating the Bosnian prosecutor’s enquiries into the involvement of international peacekeepers in the operation and activities of rape camps.

Doug, while Stankovic may have been a crude thug, professional soldiers weren’t always sidelined during the Bosnian war. Setting aside the shortcomings of some high-ranking peacekeepers, I seem to remember one or two senior officers being involved in the little matter of organising and perpetrating genocide at Srebrenica.

By: Hajra

Hajra — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:09:08 +0000

RE: David,
the rhetorics of war-crime equality and their political correctness baffle me because they’re not followed with accounts of the situation of political and military inequalities at the time!
Regrettably, it is the same with vice-versa interpretations.

However, until the day that local parties involved can agree on facts and history, the “international observer” party will have the credibility for interpretation. And it isn’t a completely accurate one.

Along the same lines & when speaking of rape-camps, I wonder if the international peace-keepers who took part in the crimes there (of whom I used to hear reports, but not so much anymore) will ever by discussed again or completely forgotten about?