tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post5742354906976451801..comments2023-10-28T05:02:10.442-04:00Comments on Americans For Bosnia: "The Destruction of Yugoslavia" by Branka Magas--IntroductionKirk Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879908614214050994noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-64913157312240374232009-05-22T20:33:56.021-04:002009-05-22T20:33:56.021-04:00http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/et112.html
Spot...http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/et112.html<br />Spotting and Dumping the Criminal Mind<br />"...Consider Dostoevsky's analysis of the criminal mind in his masterwork `Crime and Punishment': The criminal assumption is that one has the right and authority to take or confiscate values earned by others so long as someone else has a need for those values."<br />The Criminal Mind is a mode of thinking that lays the responsibility for taking care of oneself onto others. A person with a criminal mind constantly projects that others owe him something -- be it money, a job, happiness, love, or anything else of value.<br />You, and your fellow Serbs pretend that you didn’t do anything wrong:<br />You didn’t humiliated nobody, you didn’t steal nobody, you didn’t tortured nobody, you didn’t raped nobody, you didn’t kill nobody, you didn’t stab nobody, you didn’t shoot nobody, you didn’t kidnapped nobody, you didn’t took the home of nobody you didn’t took the property of nobody, you didn’t took the land of nobody ….<br />This is the way a Criminal Mind can think. Even the worse criminal tries to justify his self before committing the crime. The same way you are thinking too.<br />And if the victim react to protect his self in self defense, and hurts you, then you label your prey or victim as an aggressor. What really happen to Croatia?<br />Along with Slovenia, Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia on June 25, 1991, which triggered the Croatian War of Independence. The Serb population living in border areas of Croatia revolted, supported by the Yugoslav army, and the ensuing months saw combat between various Croatian and Serbian armed forces. During this stage of the war, the independence of Croatia was recognized by the international community, while the Serbs proclaimed their own state, the Republic of Serbian Krajina. The Yugoslav army, controlled by Serbia, armed local Serbs turning them from “innocent civilians” to paramilitary forces. With the direct support of the Yugoslav army these Serb paramilitary forces committed unspeakable crimes against local Croats innocent civilians and put them in the ran. By 1992, troops were entrenched, and so called Republic of Krajina was cleansed from the Croat population, resulting in hundreds of thousands Croat refugees that were displaced and moved to the Croatian side, and more than 20000 dead. The war ended in 1995, when the Croatian Army successfully launched two major offensives to retake the rebel areas by force, leading to a mass displacement of the hundreds of thousands local Serbs from those areas into Serbia and Republika Srpska. Those local Serbs had completed the metamorphosis from innocent civilians, to paramilitary forces and to professional criminals and terrorist. A peaceful reintegration of the remaining Serbian-controlled territory in the eastern part of the country was completed in 1998 under UN supervision, and 130000 from 250000 displaced Serbs reportedly have returned. And if all of this wasn’t enough, Serbian Nation did it again to Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosova and are ready to do it again …Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-72505619753305124242009-02-11T04:31:00.000-05:002009-02-11T04:31:00.000-05:00This sounds as if it will be interesting. Hopeful...This sounds as if it will be interesting. Hopefully it will provide some insight into the contribution of structural issues such as centralisation vs devolution, socialism vs state control vs private enterprise, to the impetus behind the Greater Serbia project.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-46882411835393850572009-02-11T04:07:00.000-05:002009-02-11T04:07:00.000-05:00This is one of the books that I found most interes...This is one of the books that I found most interesting.<BR/><BR/>Because the articles were written overtime, it allows us readers to get the feeling of how the environment in Yugoslavia deteriorated. <BR/><BR/>The part dedicated to the praxis members (ljubomir tadic, etc) is particularly revealing, due to the tone which they use to react to her criticism, which in fact confirms her point. <BR/><BR/><BR/>For my work it was really useful, because I always try to reconstruct on my mind the 'movie' of how things happen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-56212312372671434592009-02-10T23:58:00.000-05:002009-02-10T23:58:00.000-05:00"The arms embargo aided the Bosnian Serb Army and ..."The arms embargo aided the Bosnian Serb Army and Milosevic, and she knew it then."<BR/><BR/>Everybody knew it then, but the World did not care. Why would anybody care about Bosniaks, about 2 million Muslims of Bosnia? The World wanted us out of Europe. They knew well what the arms embargo would do to us, but they did not care. <BR/><BR/>Has the World become more compassionate since the Srebrenica genocide? Not really. There is an ongoing genocide in Darfur right now, and the World sits silent. <BR/><BR/>People like you, Shaina, Owen, et al are all making a tremendous contribution for the defence of human rights. But the World sits silent. And that's exactly why "we" need to stay active and keep human rights in the forefront of blogging and other media.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com