From: elee7hw@jane.uh.edu (Drago Stankovic)
Subject: Re: "Damn killer Serbs" (was Re: New York Times 15/4)
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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 18:03:00 GMT

In article <1992Apr17.164931.26728@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>, blazic@bullet.ecf.toronto.edu (BLAZIC  Joseph R) writes...
>In article <16888@plains.NoDak.edu> malenovi@plains.NoDak.edu (Nikola V. Malenovic ) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr17.000417.5013@cc.uow.edu.au> g9001190@cc.uow.edu.au (jiin jang tsai) writes:
>>>The New York Times, 15/4/92
>>>===Editorial===
>>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>no further comments...
>>
>>Nik
> 
>Last night on Canada's nightly news journal program they have a half hour
>bit on Bosnia and Hercegovina.  They interviewed three people: Martin Bell,
>Christopher Cviic (sp?), and Robert Kaplan.  The latter two are considered
>'experts' or knowledgable in the field of ex-Yu.  The first is, as most of
>us know, a BBC TV reporter with a long experience in the Croatian war.
> 

Hm, such 'experts' in case of ex-SU were not highly successive in prediction of
events. Are you realy believe that someone who spent few months in some country
as reporter can be expert?

>All three, plus the host, stated that the war was a completely unprovoked action
>by Serbia, who was supplying and supporting the irregulars, and the army who
>was as well doing nothing to stop the attacks, at best, and at worst
>participating in them.
> 
>If you could Nik, find me a foreign report or editorial that says that Serbs
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>are genuinely endangered in B&H, and that 'they' are justified in attacking
>Bosnian towns.  Then if you could find just one, try to find another.
> 

They are talking about 'Serbian-led federal army' and 'Serbian-irregulars' not 
about Serbs. Large number of Serbs, especialy in urban areas with mixed
population are just simply trying to survive together with their neighbours(sp)
of different national origin.

My point is that you can not generalize, and put sign of equality between 
nation and persons which are commiting crimes in the name of nation.
Otherwise, you as a Croatian or of a Croatian origin can be considered as an
Ustasha.
Ditto for Germans and Nazi.


>No one is buying this line anymore, Nik, not even the good 'ol USA.

Why USA is not buying this anymore can be theme for further discussion, as
well as why USA supported regime of J.B.Tito for forty years although that
regime was far from democratic standards proposed by same 'ol USA.  

>I don't
>understand why any Serb who cares about his relatives back in ex-Yu would
>defend the actions that will only kill thousands and (at best) just increase
>the length of bread lines in your native Belgrad.
> 

Please, give me a single name of Serb in scy who defended actions of ex-YU army
and irregular military formations in B&H.

Considering bread lines, IMO only these and similar lines can stop further
madness in ex-YU. No, don't draw conclusion that I think that fightings in B&H
are good because they will accelerate fall of SPS in Serbia. My point is that
economy will push people back from their nationalistic madness.

>Best regards,
> 
>Joe Blazic
>blazic@ecf.toronto.edu
> 

Regards,

Drago Stankovic
saldds@archie.agl.uh.edu