Reply #25: You are right, Megahurtz! It was the Croatians under Tudjman that began ethnic cleansing [View All]

[IndianaGreen]

of the Serbians in Croatia. Slobo did his own share of blood spilling, but he was not the one that started the bloodbath.

On a historical note, Serbians were our allies during WWII. They opposed the Nazis. The Croats were very anti-Semitic and they supported Nazi Germany.

On another oddity, the CIA imported Al-Qaeda trained Chechens into Kosovo to boost the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation Army. The KLA's primary mission was to ethnically cleanse the Serbs.

I often wonder if we could have avoided this mess had Serbia been granted her independence by the Austrian-Hungarian empire, instead of treating them like sub-human species.

The history of the Balkans is not a happy one. It is ironic that the only time there was peace and prosperity was under the Communist government of Tito. After Tito's death, all of the nationalist and religious conflicts that had been suppressed by him rose again, to everyone's loss.