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Jasenovac happenned during WWII, one of the most despicable events in history of the Croatia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac_concentration_camp

However, the memory of Jasenovac often serves as justification for new atrocities commited to revenge the victims (50 years later!)

Serbia was bombarded for crimes on Kosovo, probably to stop Kosovo from becoming next Bosnia...

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I did not comment at all about the "rightness or wrongness" of what either side did: My comment was more about the American media and how it covered the conflict. My honest feelings about the region are that it's a bunch of people who have been brutal to each other for centuries (and continue to be), but if you watched Christian Amanpour on CNN during that time, you would get the impression that it was an entirely one-sided conflict where only the Serbs did wrong and we were completely justified in stepping in and waging war. In my opinion, I think in 100 years looking back this will be remembered by some very observant historians as the prelude to Afghanistan/Iraq and the "beginning of the end" of America's dominance. People were complete tools, there was not even the hint of a counter-narrative to the "Serbs are bad" stories being pushed by the govt through mainstream media. The real story, of course, was a lot more complicated. The Serbs weren't "right" for trying to get revenge on people who collaborated with Hitler to exterminate them but that background information was never even presented while the war was being sold to US public.

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