Look,let's not start talking about "genocide" and war crimes of this war because it will be a loooong discussion and one of the things I wanted to avoid when I was thinking of registering in this thread. Because it's a headache to start talking with a gazillion pro-Bosniak and pro-Turkish foreigners who will never accept anything I would show them. And I would have to start posting videos again,documentaries,photos,quotes,sources blah blah blah. Let's agree that all sides did bad things and leave it there. Of course you will not agree and say "Serbs monsters,Serbs genocide,evil Serbs" etc.
Genocide happened and it was confirmed by the international court. You dont have to agree with he court if you are in Greece, but if you come to Bosnia you will be arrested for those views. So I encourage you to come visit Bosnia and state those genocide denying views to me or anyone there. The penalty is only up to 5 years in prison and a fine. But you could get lucky and get Serbian judge and just get maybe 3 weeks in prison.
This new law was introduced by the recently departed Austrian high representative to Bosnia, who has the power to make any Laws in Bosnia. This is his law. And the Serbs are going wild. They cant deny genocide anymore.
And I dont think serbs are monsters, only the separatists and genocide deniers. There are even Bosniaks who deny these crimes. And there are Bosniak separatists as well as Bosniaks that fought in the Serbian army against their won country.
Being a genocidal maniac isn't exclusive to any one nation. It's more of a mental disease.
But anyway,the entire Federation started leaving and the West encouraged that. It was illegal to leave the Federation. I understand that people wanted to leave the Federation and a communist regime,but you should understand that Serbs wanted to stay in the Federation and that's how it should have been done. They should have found a solution to let the Bosnian Serbs stay in Yugoslavia and let the rest of BiH leave. But then the Croats would also leave and Herzegovina would have united with Croatia. Izetbegovic didn't want that.
Yes I think, but Im not certain, that it was illegal to leave Yugoslavia. What Croatia and Slovenia did was illegal and by Milosevic accepting it he was also in breach of the Yugoslav constitution.
Once Croatia and Slovenia left, and Yugoslavia didnt bring them back into the federation, Yugoslavia was finished. We cant stay in a Serbian Dominated Yugoslavia. That was suicide.
Serbs were 30% of the population but lived in rural isolated areas and controlled maybe 60% of the local councils. Maybe more. With Serbian military help they conquered 75% of the country before the war even began. Then they genocided us. And it took the next 3 years for us to get armed and start defeating them. There was no way they could have taken 75% of the country with them. Not possible then, not possible now.
there is no way they could even take 5% fo the land. I would give them 20% if they all left. but I am extreme minority. The way they are dispersed and the way the territories are its impractical for them to leave. And also we are similar culturally, and speak similar almost the same language. probably only 70% of the serbs want to break away now anyway. Thats only about 20% of the total Bosnian population.
Most Croatians also dont want the country to break up, maybe only 10% of Croatians want that.
And though Karadzic pleaded with him not to take Bosnia down the path of war,Izetbegovic insisted.
He threatened genocide if we left. and he carried out his promise, His threats of genocide are on YouTube. I can post a link.