This article was meant as a warning and an alarm. Too much blood has been shed. Milosevic should be tried and, if found guilty, punished severely. And, yet, alas, it is a distinct possibility. All men of conscience must oppose it openly.
Assassination is as vile and abhorrent as denial.
The Serbs committed war crimes on a massive scale, as did the Croats and, to a lesser extent, the Bosnian Moslems. The tendency to protect one's home-bred monsters is not a Serb phenomenon. Witness the demonstrations in Zagreb against the extradition of their lot of mass murderers. Neither can be effected without facing the truth. The truth about who the people of the Balkan are and what they did to each other and what they go on doing to each other.