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| Serb general jailed for war crimes | ||
| 2003-12-06 | ||
A Bosnian Serb general has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, for commanding a deliberate two-year campaign of terror against civilians during the blockade of Sarajevo. The general, Stanislav Galic, rained sniper fire and shells on the Muslim sector of the city that killed hundreds of people and wounded thousands, the conviction said. By a two-to-one decision on Friday, the United Nations war crimes tribunal said Galic, 60, ordered his troops to fire on civilians while they were shopping, tending gardens, fetching water from the river or going about their daily lives.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #5 .com The subjecyt about what the Muslims did to the Serbs during WW2. It was about the signal the Muslims sent to the Serbs by electing a member of a genocidal group. The kind of signals who make people nervous. In that case if you are very heavily outnumbered (like ten to one or more) then you flee, if you aren't then you split. |
| Posted by: JFM 2003-12-6 4:07:01 PM |
| #4 How far back indeed. At one point or another, every square inch of land in the world has probably been stolen from somebody. Given that we are essentially territorial animals, and attacks and counterattacks will go on as long as we exist as a species (?not as long as we would like to think?) |
| Posted by: Slumming 2003-12-6 1:13:30 PM |
| #3 At the core of all of these passion plays is the question: How far back do you want to go to establish "right" and "wrong" and "who owns the land" and "who conspired / collaborated with whom" etc. ad infinitum ad nauseum. The Serb's 60 yr old revenge claims against Croats or Slovaks or Bosnians or Branch Davidians or Howdy Doodians who collaborated with Hitler have to end somewhere. As do all the other similar grievances, real or imagined. I would find it interesting to read what the Tito-approved history books used to indoctrinate the Serbs had to say... Anything exceeding an average lifetime is pretty obviously slipping into the "Great Lie" category - assuming it had substantial truth to it in the first place. And we haven't even begun to discuss what actions the "aggrieved" take in their campaigns of retribution... Genocide / ethnic cleansing ala Serb-style, arguably, is a course that should only be taken when faced with annihilation. The Serbs haven't faced that since the end of WW-II - and probably didn't even then. No wonder the Euros balked at dealing with the Balkans... And we have Northern Ireland... Michael Collins and the whole mish-mash of Great Lies propagated by all sides (in degree, anyway) there... And then we have the Paleos and their flavor of the Great Lie... Promulgated by their Egyptian "President" Arafish. Ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Civilization? What civilization? Know the lyrics of Randy Newman's song Political Science? Or God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)? Not a bad take on things when you get tired of quibbling over the bits. |
| Posted by: .com 2003-12-6 12:12:19 PM |
| #2 JFM, point made. Double standards are a bitch. There is plenty of brutality to go around. The news coverage on those conflicts were pretty one sided around here. No Rantburg, that I knew of, to keep me well informed then. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2003-12-6 11:22:52 AM |
| #1 Ordered his troops to kill little girls, did he? 20 years is too light. 200 years is more like it. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-12-6 1:14:36 AM |