We Serbs had the same problems in Croatia, Bosnia and in Kosovo.
When we were attacked the western media had sympathy for our enemies. Many Dutch nationalist supported and joined Croat-Bosnian army units.
There were plenty of nazi-skinhead volunteer-units active from the Western countries on Yugoslav lands.
Your media made Serbs look like savages. No body took action to stop that propaganda not even today.
That’s way the Western European countries and the U.S are so unpopular in Serbia.
I too was posted in the balkans Dalmacija, Brithish army and i have relized quit a few years ago that we were on the wrong side, all i saw was the dead children and women, i realize this was just what we in the west are going to fight soon and i am ashamed of myself for beliving the propaganda against you"s and a very lot of my comrades do too,sorry.
Say sorry to those people who lost their homes, children or parents. They need help because they are now in a situation without basic conditions.
You can not expect that we Serbs will forgot or forgive these savage brutalities against our people only because of their ethnicity they were banished from their homelands or in some worse cases killed.
During the Turkish attacks
the European nation needed fighters like Serbs to stop the Ottoman expansion.
The Serbs fought in many wars to keep Europe save from invaders from outside.
We Serbs from Krajina (military district) were directly guarding the Austo-Hungarian kingdom and Catholic Europe from the Turks. The Serbs,
but especially the Krajina Serbs were the stop for Ottoman expansion. Because Krajina was a mountainous area and because those Krajina Serbs were warriors who scared every conqueror the Turks did not like to go through Krajina. A King from Austro-Hungaria (at that time) gave political rights to the Serbs in Krajina (krajina was part of their kingdom) but we got our autonomy. They needed warriors like us that’s the reason why the respected us and gave us rights.
During the collapse of royal Yugoslavia in the WW2.
The krajina Serbs came under Nazi Croatian occupation. In death camps the half population of the Krajina Serbs was eliminated.
At the end of WW2 the Cetniks (a Serb antifascist and anticommunist movement) was defeated because the allies ( so called Serb allies) gave permission for a communist victory in stead of a democratic and royal Cetnik victory. With other words the Serb option was not victorious.
The Krajina Serbs came again into Croatian borders. Because Krajina became a part of the new by communists created socialist republic of Croatia which was part of the Yugoslav federation.
During the collapse of communist Yugoslavia in the begin of the 90ties.
The Croats declared an independent state of Croatia with out guaranteeing civil rights to the Serb minority in Croatia (Krajina). They put us out of their new constitution they did not mention not even one word about the Serb presentation in Croatia. With other words we did not exist in their eyes.
Our reaction was.
The Serbs and the Croats are both constitutional nations of the Yugoslav federation.
If the Croats have the right to create their own state than you can not forbid us Serbs from Croatia (also a constitutional nation based on the Yugoslav constitution) to do the same. That’s way we separated us from Croatia because we had no other option. Those who wanted a independent Croatian state did not want to recognize the Serb rights.
You people from West Europe have forgotten that those same Krajina Serbs were the biggest barricade to Ottoman expansion. We were Guards of Europe once. You forgot that the Austo-Hungarian kingdom recognized us and gave us rights in that time when Croatia didn’t exist. Who are the Croats a nation who committed genocide against the krajina Serbs who are they to take our right.
The European nations and the US recognized a (Croatian) state who committed elimination of people two times in history in WW2 and during the break of Yugoslavia.
How do you think how we feel now?
You think that we must forgot this all? We won’t be naïve any more to believe in anybody expect in our traditional brothers.