The Balkan Wars of the 1990s are a very, very touchy subject for many people, even those who are either members of the Yugoslavian diaspora or their friends. I myself attend a Serbian Orthodox church, and I lived in the Balkans for a considerable amount of time living in Macedonia, so my natural affinity is for my fellow congregants. The problem is that thuggery was allowed to usurp religion in the area, and butchers on all three sides hijacked religion for their own purposes. I’ve been following the Radovan Karadžić trial with great interest because I’ve been waiting to hear his rationale for what he’s been charged with, essentially genocide. He claims that the seige of Sarajevo was nothing but a myth, and that what Bosnian Serbs did was “just and holy.” Say what you will about the merits of Karadžić’s claims, but the fact does remain that Serbs were butchered about as badly as Bosniaks and Croats were.
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Karadzic: Sarajevo and Srebrenica crimes are myths
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Chemical Ali is finally executed
Monday, January 25th, 2010The Sun has reported that Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam Hussein’s cousin and the monster responsible for the gassing of Kurds during the 1980s and 1990s, was hanged today in Baghdad. Next should be Tariq Aziz, so-called Catholic and traitor to both his faith and his people, but I’ve a feeling he’ll be dead soon enough.
The Irish times has more on Chemical Ali’s execution, as well as first-hand reports of a bombing which killed 36 people today, also in Baghdad.
