Matthew
pre 15 godina
“What is more offensive: 100,000 proven dead or say half a million without proof?
I thank God not all think like you.
(it pays 2b smart, 22 July 2008 19:02)”
Dear Smart,
I was publically called a traitor by my own people for appearing on television with a Bosniak humanitarian group in the Republic of Srpska. I am regularly accused of being Albanian here on B92 for supporting a peaceful partition of Kosovo as a solution to that issue.
I apologized for Srebrenica and reached out to the Bosniak people in person to foster reconciliation, but that’s not good enough for you is it? All Serbs are evil to you. You can’t even see the difference between a “liberal” and a “nationalist”.
Just because I stand up for the TRUTH and for calling it as I see it.
Yes, exaggerating the number of dead by 400,000 is racist and extremely offensive to all Serbs. The complete demonizing of all Serbians has got to stop. I’m somehow a bad person for wanting the truth to be told?
How do you expect for true reconciliation to occur if such wild accusations continue to be made on a constant basis?
You want to lay the blame for all the deaths at the feet of Karadzic. While I don’t not like Karadzic in the least, he is not responsible for everything. Tudjman and the Croatians attacked the Bosniaks as well, and just as brutally, not to mention Tudjman’s Ustashe psychological warfare designed to whip the Serbian people into an uncontrollable frenzy. I’ve seen Mostar with my own eyes and I know what fate befell its population. That city was utterly destroyed.
As a Serbian-American, what do you think I feel more shame for? What happened in Bosnia or what is happening in Iraq?
Up to a million innocent civilians dead and climbing, and you’re pissed off about a war that ended over a decade ago?
According to your philosophy and logic, a murderer and a serial killer are equally evil.
In my world view, what Hitler did to the Jews was far more evil than what the US did in Vietnam.
According to your logic we should not judge the different shades of evil and merely treat them all as equal.
Yet, I don’t see you expressing the same outrage for the innocent Serbian people who died in Bosnia. If one life is as precious to you as 100,000 or a million, you would judge all sides in the Bosnian war equally.
Michael hit the nail on the head, Bosnia only captured the West’s attention because the West is racist, and that was exactly my point.
In my humble opinion the World is a very dark place filled with Evil Men who rape, kill and plunder. Yet no one cares. I care just as much for the African that dies, as for the Iraqi, or Bosniak or Serb.
I also want for reconciliation to take place, and in order for that to happen, we Serbs must acknowledge that some crimes were committed in the name of our people, and that those who committed them tarnished the good image of the Serbian people for at least a generation. However, in order for that reconciliation to occur, we must put the crimes into perspective, we must not exaggerate or demonize an entire population.
Much of the distrust of the Serbian people towards the West was a direct result of these lies, propaganda and the blatant manipulation of the media and popular opinion.
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