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And the evidence is...a claim by an Italian writer who heard it from a former Bosnian intel officer who heard it from...

But this does remind me of that excellent docu-series The Line about members of a Navy SEAL platoon who accused their chief of war crimes.

https://tv.apple.com/us/show/the-line/umc.cmc.4u53f7zokr7g40...

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No, the evidence is an Italian writer who did years of research, including a Bosnian former intelligence officer as a key source. He also uncovered that Bosnian intelligence warned the Italian secret service that this was happening.

There are also specific individuals whose details have been sent to SISMI for investigation.

>No, the evidence is an Italian writer who did years of research, including a Bosnian former intelligence officer as a key source

I can't read the article, but none of this really contradicts OP's point, which is that all of this hinges on hearsay. Is there any evidence presented that isn't hearsay?

I mean serb snipers were already shooting the civilians en masse in Sarajevo. Its not a huge leap from that to lending the opportunity to a few depraved rich idiots. The Epstein files absolutely show you how depraved some rich folks are...

Doesn't this logic just cause a cascade? eg. "we all know group X is depraved, so it wouldn't surprise me that they did something even more depraved, which lends further evidence for them being depraved!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_cascade

I think you mean “depraved” here, not “deprived”.

thanks, edited.

Not really? That isn't the argument they were making.

There were snipers on all sides doing immoral things. The war in Sarajevo started when a Serbian wedding was shot up in April 1992, causing the Serbs to panic and want to secede from Bosnia & Herzegovina. Then you end up with "rights for this ethnic group but not the other", and a civil war breaks out with geopolitical meddling from foreign wanna-be powers.

No please, stop puking this bullshit...if you believe that, you also believe Princip's assasination of Duke Ferdinand was the underlying cause of WW1 (and not the tensions among the great colonial powers of the time).

Wouldn't be the first time an Italian prosecutor went on a witch hunt based on wild conspiracy theories: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monster-of-florence-amanda-knox...

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