As much as I do not agree with many of Milosevic's politics, worst being the communist part, he was 100 percent right to try to defend his country and his fellow serbs. I will never ever deny that Serbs did not commit war crimes but:
1. muslims and croats did the same thing equal or more.
2. civil wars are the worst types of wars. one revenge after another. you cannot expect for some serbian soldiers to hold the hatred when members of their families are killed brutally. furthermore, ignoring those crimes commited against them only tells muslims and croats to continue the same brutal killings.
We did not see Serbs cutting off muslim and croat heads and then displaying it for everyone to see, but we did see muslims proudly showing off with cut-off heads of Serbs.
Milosevic was a war criminal as much as Thaci (albanian), Tudjman (croat), and Izetbegovic (muslim from bosnia). in other words, all of them should be tried, not just Milosevic....
I seriously dough he was anywhere near as bad as the above mentioned monsters,if he was he'd still be in power in serbia no?(would have been no reason for the west to have him removed.)
So please just coz he is a socialist/commie doesn't mean he is anywhere near the above mentioned(tho by all means i do not proclaim him a saint!)
Shalom Brother 4International,
I have family from RSK (Republic of Srpska Krajina), who were kicked out of the Nazi Croatia in 1995. Why?
Because of Milosevic's unwillingness to help them when they needed the most. More than half a million serbs from Bosnia and Krajina were forced to leave their ancient homelands because Milosevic did not want to help eventhough he had every right to do so not only in 1991, but also in 1993 & 1995. That is a crime, crime towards your own people.
In 1991, Serbian military from RSK came within 15 miles of Zagreb, and then Milosevic told them "go back". Imagine if that didn't happen. There would today still be RSK and it would be part of Greater Serbia, a country that I always wished for.
1993, serbs from Bosnia were in the center of Bihac, an extremely important town in Northwest Bosnia. Actually, the whole battle wasn't even started by the Serbs, but by the Muslims, who when they saw that the offense in that battle turned into a Serbian counter-offence, ran. Once again, Milosevic said "pull back". If Milosevic did not say "stop", war in Bosnia would have ended in 1993, RSK would be a even stronger reality (due to the geographical importance of Bihac), and Serb Republic would have been 70% of Bosnia, not 49. Turks (as we call muslims from bosnia) would have no other option but to accept that they will lose the entire war if they do not agree to the then-terms.
In 1995, when RSK was over-ran by Croatian Nazis, Yugoslav Army (under control of Milosevic) had a FULL RIGHT to defend the Serbs from RSK because it was an agreement by both sides that in case Croatian Nazis attack RSK for any reason, Yugoslav Army was required to defend Serbs from RSK. That didn't happen.
In 1999, Serbian forces were almost done with KLA, the albanian terroris group in Kosovo. To be more exact, KLA was beaten to the last hill...once again, Milosevic said "pull back". So close and you mess it up.
Yugoslav Army, even after the break-up of the country, was way better armed than Slovenia, Croatia or Muslim part of Bosnia and was more professional. They didn't do nothing. They even threatened to stop supplying the arms for Serbs from Krajina and Bosnia if they didn't do as Milosevic told them.
If you are in a war, you do not stop when you are so close to your goals. You must understand that Serbs always do better in war then at the negotiating table. The way I look at it, you first finish the war and then you negotiate because then, all the playing cards are now in your corner.
Did he deserve to go to Hague? Absolutely not. If anything, he should have been tried in Serbia for treason. We all know that Hague Trials are nothing other than the West's way of saying "we were right, you Serbs werent".
To say that Serbs didn't commit any war crimes is plain idiocracy. As I mentioned earlier, even I cannot expect serbs to commit such crimes after loosing so many in WW II and during the war. When you kill someone's entire family, you cannot expect them to just act normal in the war and I fully understand that. At the same time, if Serbs didn't kill any Muslims or Croats in the form of revenge, it would tell Muslims and Croats that it is a green light for them to continue doing it.
I am still a strong believer in Greater Serbia.
During Milosevic's trial in Hague, one of his former allies Vojislav Seselj (leader of the Serbian Radical Party) was one of milosevic's witnesses. When one of Hague's judges asked Seselj if Milosevic was for Greater Serbia, Seselj said "no, Milosevic was for Yugoslavia, not Greater Serbia. I was for the Greater Serbia."
Did the Serbs kill that many Muslims and Croats during the war? Of course not, but for the western traitors US and Western Europeans' public, the number of 300,000 muslims (we can only wish) killed sounds better for public opinion than the factual 20,000 (if that many).......
Media control is the today the most powerful weapon in any war.
Few years back, I met someone who was in the Srebrenica operations. When I asked them about the imaginary 8,000 muslims brutally killed (another fake number created by the western media), he told me that around 2,000 were killed for one simple reason: revenge for almost 4,500 serbs killed by the Al-Quaeda trained towelheads in the villages near Srebrenica....................
I am always for justice, not for injustice.
I hope this expalins my reasoning.