mentalmeltdown said:
I am not going to debate you about how's too blame because you have seem to have an axe to grind and slightly nationalistic. But when you compare Serbs in Croatia to Californians in Nevada it's silly. If you are from there then you know that 'Serbian" and Croatian" function both as national and ethnic/ and or tribal designations. Hence, the entantaglement between nation and ethnicity became pretty horrifying in Bosna. The problem in Bosna is a long history of entaglements between religion, ethnicity, and nationality. Milosevic, by the time he came along, fueled the fires, helped foster the ethno-national fracturing of Yugoslavia by helping to provide moral and financial support for the Bosnian Serb army, the Croatian Serb army, and of course used his own police to kill ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
Just as in Kosovo, a large ethinic Albanian population always lived there, a large ethnic Serbian population lived in Croatia. No one but a Serb nationalist would deny the existence of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, and no one but a Croatian nationalist would deny the existence of ethnic Serbs in Croatia.
. I actually agreed with most of your previous post it's just that I wanted to bring into perspective an opinion of someone who has actually lived there and saw both (or three) sides of the story. I'm not denying the existence of ethnic "serbs", let's call them that - in fact they are Croatians of orthodox faith who have lived on the soil of the republic known as Croatia for several hundreds years. However, there are great lengths to go from living as a religious minority in a country and claim your status to be recognized as opposed to separating yourself as an independent state and claiming parts of Croatia to be "Serbian soil" and arming yourself up to your teeth, bombing civilians in the process (Vukovar, Zadar) to name a few...
