All the semantics involved in the case of Radovan Karadzic and the whole Bosnian war in particular is starting to grate on my nerves. Actually, it’s way past that, I feel myself wince every time I read the word in an article and it’s starting to piss me off.
Now as any goo writer should I try to stay unbias (ha!), well, I try anyway but the matter is that Karadzic is guilty of ordering a whole hell of a lot of people exterminated. Was it “genocide”? Does it really matter? They’re dead, he told the soldiers to do it, they did. Guilty, right?
Not so fast, he is standing on a leg that seems to be gaining strength and that leg is all about the aforementioned, dreaded, retarded and pointless word: Genocide.
Yes, those he wanted dead all happened to be Bosniaks, he wanted them “cleansed” from the area but it wasn’t really about their religion or their ethnicity in a lot of ways. They had just pissed him off. They didn’t agree with his agenda, he and Milosevic, Mladic figured they could swoop in, take out the opposition and get what they wanted.
If those killed hadn’t been Muslim, but still opposed them, chances are good they would have done the same exact thing because let’s face it, they figured they could get away with it and Bill Clinton (the positively scion of virtue that he is) was perfectly willing to let them.
So, is that genocide? Yes and no. But bottom line WHO GIVES A SHIT. Call a spade a spade and a mass murderer a mass murderer. If they keep pushing the word down the throat of the courts Radovan Karadzic is going to shove back twice and hard and he is a smart mother fucker.
Hague, LISTEN UP! Forget the “Bosnian Genocide” stick with some lower numbers and nail him with murder.
He has a pretty valid claim about the numbers. On one hand the prosecution says thousands were executed and buried only to be reburied at a later date. Karadzic claims that there is no telling how many DNA samples overlap. How many of pieces of people were spread throughout more than one mass grave? Who knows! With no one doing all the DNA work that needs to be done this brings into serious question whether he is indeed of genocide.
For example, let’s say for arguments sake that there were 150 DNA samples found at one gravesite and 200 at another. One could say that this means 350 Bosnian Muslims were murdered. BUT if indeed they were dug up before being reburied, that 350 could turn into only 200. Different parts of the same people in multiple graves? It’s certainly possible if not probable. This has a direct bearing on the genocide claim.
So DROP IT! Pick a good 150 dead Bosniaks, I don’t give a shit, pick names out of a hat, and try him for those deaths. Okay, all those genocide deniers will go on to squawk and squawk but who cares? He will be in prison for the rest of his life. Isn’t that the point after all?
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This is in reply to the person who made the comment in the comments section, it was too long so I decided to make it a part of the original post:
“The TRUTH is coming out”
–I don’t think there is any truth to find anymore. It’s too late people on both sides have convinced themselves they were the “injured party” and these opinions will never change. Ever. Throw as many bodies, bones and skulls around and the Serbs will say they were people killed by the Muslims, and the Bosniaks will say it was the Chetniks.
There is no winning, they will never get all the DNA crap done, bodies were moved so many times leaving pieces of people all over, in more than one mass grave. That makes things very complicated and it can be twisted to seem like a lot more victims that it actually is.
“Funny how Serbs who have been in their lands for over a thousand years resisting being under an Islamic fascist state defending their homes against militant extremists are guilty of “ethnic cleansing.”
What’s funny is you attacking me for saying what you just wrote. My whole point and opinion is to forget about the “genocide” forget about the “ethnic cleansing” like you said, call a spade a spade. If he is responsible for killing people he gets locked up. A murderer is a murderer. Done.
By focusing on the terminology over there in the Hague they are just making it easier for Karadzic to get off scott free. It takes a lot more work to prove someone orchestrated a whole genocide than to prove someone gave order to kill some people. Seriously, huge difference and they are tying their own hands behind their backs, which is ridiculous.
Now, the US stuff you are saying, yeah they are total assholes, I am lucky enough not to be one, I just wished I lived further away because they are going to be nothing but one big ass dart board eventually and I don’t want to be right next door when it happens.
My personal opinion was that yes, the States did take advantage of the situation and they definitely fanned the flames because it was in their interest to do so. They wanted whatever it was, crap maybe they just got off on the high of being in control, who knows why they do what they do, they are just total dicks basically. Every time I remember seeing stupid Bill Clinton bowing his head in front of that memorial, I throw up a little in my mouth.
You are talking about the market explosion right? With people saying the Bosniaks did it to their own people for sympathy. I personally don’t believe that. I can see the US doing it though to make something look like something it wasn’t. That, I can see happening.
And yes, war is war BUT bringing the fighting into where civilians are is just cheating. That shouldn’t happen. They should go back to the old ways where each side met the other in a field, they battled it out and whoever was left standing was the one to win. That was more fair.
But truly, I get conflicting feelings sometimes when it comes to the whole civilians thing. On one hand I think each party needs to take care to keep civilians out of the line of fire. But on the other hand, these stupid, slowly eeking wars are ridiculous. Either go all in, get the job done, messy, dirty, fast or get the fuck out. Period.
If they did it that way in the end people would be better off and hey, when all is done and accounted for maybe less people would have died.
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
