There is however a huge difference between 300,000 and 3000. Wanna try saying that only 60,000 Jews died in the holocaust and see how far that gets you?
Every death is tragic, being 1 or a million.. And that was a typo..the number should be 30000.
What I'm irritated about is the placing of all balme on our dorstep, for what we did and didn't do, and the lies that circle about.
In order to understand everything you'd need to know the history and relationships between the people in this region. I'd take way too long to explain that, so I'll try and skip that. I'll just give you a few fact to ponder on:
1. Ever since Croatia joined Yugoslavia (and even before that the same thing happened with other unions we rushed inot), Croats had no say in what was going on. Alltough Yugoslava was supposed to be a losoe federation, every important position was filled with serbs. All the higher ranking military officers, government officials, etc. were Serbs, except a few exceptions that you could count on one hand. Most of the military was serbs too. So a lot of thing that were commanded and exectuted by serbs ended up on our soul.
2. Most historians never set foot in Croatia. the few that did talked to 3 people and that's it. Hardly historicly accurate. Whole population of villages were reported dad by Sebs, yet the vilalges and it's people are still there, alive and well. A lot of names of dead on the lisits are dead from previous wars*. As I said, Serbs** have a great propaganda, and they aren't the only ones involved in the media war either. AS to the accuracy of historians, one little tidbit is more that enough to see just how plaing wrong they are. Most of them refer to the conflict as a "civil war". If you look up under the civil war definition, you'll see that's just plain wrong.
*There have been reserches and documentaries done about it, but they are very slow to leak out inot the world. Internet publications is still in it's infancy here I'm afraid.
**I don't want anyone to think that I hate Serbs. I had quite a few good friends before the war. Still do. In fact, some of htem are visiting from Belgrade this month. FYI, I'm refering to the more extremist ones.
3. Britain has been a royal pain in the a** for my country since forever. In fact, they have been working against us for decades. Look a bit in their part in the little massacre called Srebrenica. I would rather turst a četkink (extremist serbian soldier) than anything the brit government sez.
4. The victors don't write the history, the powerfull ones do. Our history is being re-written for us. More than enough evidence for it is hte travesty known as Haag. Just reading a bit about it is enough to see that it's a faulty, politicly influenced travesty whos sole purpose is to equalize blame. The "higher powers" are not interested in truth. You have to ask yourself why would anyone want to do that?
Becosue he higher powers didn't want Yugoslava to break up. Even now we're being pushed into a "new Yugoslavia" by the EU.
5. The level of extremism and tensions here go back hunderds of years. It's hard for anyone to understand, heck I don't understand how can something like that happen.
I'll give you a few small examples.
Two neighbours in a village, friends. known eachother for over 30 years, their children married eachother. When Croatia declared independance and the Serbsian forces were on the move the serbian neighbour took up his rifle and killed his croatian nehgbour and his family.
Or how about a 80 years old grandma runing around with a old WW1 rifle wanting to kill croats, then baking cookes for the serbian forces that buthered every croat in the village?
How can you even comprehand that? It's worse than those terrorist sleepers! Now if people are willing to do that, you'd really think they would think anything of giving false testimonies? Tehy couldn't win in a normal armed conflict, so now tehy're out fgting a meda war...and sady, tehy are winning.
just ponder on those thnigs for awhile...
EDIT: Just for hte record I think the number of 6,000,000 jews dead a bit inflated. Some time ago I did a little research out of curiosity, looking up the pupulations lists made just before the war for various countries Germany invaded. It's been a while but methinks the total number of jews in those countries was below 6 million.