It’s one thing wanting to form an ethnic state within current borders and run by the majority, as Tuđman did; it’s certainly a distasteful idea and not one to be encouraged. But to advocate the effective conquest of two sovereign states and the expulsion or subjugation of their non-Serb populations? It’s an entirely different level.

When I wrote “BEFORE”, I was referring to 1988/9, not WWII (on which my knowledge is unfortunately rather thin). What if Seselj was actually trying to defend Serbian population in Bosnia and Croatia? Let’s not forget that a lot more Serbs lived in both Croatia and Muslim parts of Bosnia prior to the war. I’m talking about hundreds of thousands of human beings banished from Bosnia and Croatia (I can’t find the exact number yet).

Now, maybe Seselj really is a sick criminal who just used the circumstances to pull off his evil scheme. But what if he isn’t? Why is the trial taking so long?

Cooperation is fine, I’m all for it, let them cooperate as much as they want ;), but it seems that bits of truth are being covered up or engineered in the meantime. As time passes by it will get increasingly difficult to uncover the truth (and nothing but the truth). But cooperation – good:)

Kind Regards

Part of being a mature and stable democracy is not to bear those grudges: look at, say, Poland and Germany, who cooperate as members of the EU and NATO despite a past far bloodier—and just as recent—as that between Croatia and Serbia.

I’m not ignorant of the unique circumstances in the Western Balkans, of course, but it seems impossible to conceive of a future that does not involve a Germany–Poland-esque cooperation between the whole region. Anyone that threatens that secure future—as Šešelj did, along with Tuđman and others from all sides—cannot be condoned, IMO.

I have to admit that your article seems to be somewhat Serbophobic, especially in the last sentence (“…devastating consequences for the non-Serb populations of Yugoslavia”). The consequences were indeed devastating, for Serbs as well. The fact that Serbian victims (civilians) and countless refugees are hardly ever, or never, mentioned in mainstream media is truly beyond me.

If you read this Seselj’s radical actions might become more clear, they might be observed as a reaction to the crimes committed against Serbs BEFORE the war (just another possible viewpoint).

By no means do I want to justify the actions of a potential war criminal, I simply want to know the truth about this horrible war. The whole truth, not just the bits and pieces that tend to blame everything on Serbs.

Once again, thank you for writing about this.

Well written articles; thanks. And nice that someone with a name devoid of diacritics should be interested in the Balkans! (Now tell me your family name was changed… )

The robm site intrigues me. Why can’t I navigate around it? I found your site through your PHP Security Guide, which lead me to your blog… but presumably there’s more somewhere…