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Just out of curiousity, wasn´t there a seed of truth in the way Bosnians treated by the Serbs during the hostilities. Were the Serbs completely innocent? How did all those civilians lose their lives and how do you explain the mass burials uncovered in the aftermath of the war.
I am not asking those to tease you or to challenge you, I understand Serbs have become a victim of the war eventually, but what about all those accusations of massacre and the stuff. Do you think they were all fabricated?
Meanwhile, that particular operation was probably the only one that did not involve an energy connection as well as being seemingly not an example of Christianity against Islam drive.
I don´t claim Serbs are completely innocent, but I DO claim Serbs are victims too, in this war and through the history. Anyway, with no intention to turn this topic to discussion of „Serbian question“, I will gladly answer your questions, appreciating your interest to hear explanation from „the other side“ and out of wide spread stereotypes. My English is not so good to allow me to completely express my opinion, so I will ask you, and everyone else interested and patient enough to read this article – its parts about Kosovo and Bosnia. There are facts that explain all your questions. But in short: Serbia was not bombed because of Bosnia, but because of Kosovo, and conflict between Serbs and Albanians about Kosovo reaches deep in history and no one is able to say „who started first“. Anyway, in newer history, Kosovo became officially attached to Serbia, where Albanian minority became mayority in the province, struggling to achieve independence. Similar things happen in Basque Spain, Catholic Northern Ireland, Kurdish Turkey, where rebellious forces, similar to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), engage governments and provoke retaliation. Of course, Serbia, as any sovereign country, fought against such kind of separatism. But, independent Kosovo conformed to the West – this time it was not oil in question, but military presence at Balkans - Serbia denied the stationing of NATO troops in sovereign Serbian territory. So, international forces supported rebellions and attacked Yugoslavia citing „atrocities against Albanians“ as the reason. The result was: physical and economic destruction of Yugoslavia; the Serbs lost authority in Kosovo; ethnic cleansing of a Serb population, going to even trafficking in organs taken from murdered Serbs! – and brand new US military camp Bondsteel, described by human rights envoy of the Council of Europe as a "smaller version of Guantanamo"!
Now let alone everything that happened to „bad Serbian people, who got what deserved“. Let´s see what have got Albanian people who was supposed to be „protected“: they were directly exposed to the terror of Serbian forces, since the mass exodus of Albanians from Kosovo did not start until the NATO bombings of Kosovo, in which many Kosovars were killed; their infrastructure was destructed, their territory bombed with missiles filled with depleted uranium, with all its consequences to human health for (hundreds of) years. Is it what had to happen, in situation when negotiations were still possible?
One thing that I want to highlight – and this is similar with what Vineyards said in his post - besides of punishing Serbs, there are more results of the Yugoslavia war that should be considered: „testing of weapons in all types of conditions that caused death and destruction, an acceptance that strong nations may attack weaker nations with the pretext of unfair treatment of their minorities, revival of war as a solution to problems, renewal of an arms race, the loss of sovereignty, and the uncomfortable feeling that no matter where you are in the world, if you don´t agree with a specified policy you can become the target of a guided missile.“
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Orthodox Christmas is in the same day like Chatolic ( 25 December) not
