Interesting. Thank you for your input, i genuinely appreciate it.

the media trys to put out all sorts of false and misleading information. they rely on a lazy and uneducated populace to keep their hold on the flow of information.

I get as much information from other sources as i can, but i am always looking for more.

thanks again, and.. i apologize for my countries actions.

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It's sad to see that us Serbs and Croatians are still fighting, even nowadays. When will it stop?

I think the whole thing was a publicity stunt to boost morale in the military/faith in the military.

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Probably boosting morale prior to possible attack on Iraq.

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It's sad to see that us Serbs and Croatians are still fighting, even nowadays. When will it stop?

I don't know where you heard that, but the last two battles were in 1995 when Croatia returned it's occupied territory. After that there was some fighting in bosnia, between serbs, croats, and muslims, but that stopped soon afterwards. In 1999 i believe, serbian province Kosovo with albanian majority rebelled, serbians retaliated, and then NATO attacked serbia, and now Kosovo is pretty much in status quo. Soon after, the right-wing president of Croatia died, bosnian one retreated few weeks later, and the serbian one was overthrown very soon after that. He is now in Hague, on the War Crimes Tribunal. Now all three countries have normal, albeit incompetent governments, which are more or less on normal terms, although there are some minor territorial issues unresolved, and Bosnia doesn't seem like it's gonna last for long, because croatian and serbian large minorities want to gain independence, and only the UN is stopping them from doing so.

I'm not talking about wars between the countries buddy... they're over now... But being a born and raised Serb i cant even walk down the street (Here in Melbourne, Aust. ffs!!!) wearing my Crvena Zvezda shirt, without receiving death threats for being a chetnik. And no, i dont go around holding signs saying that i hate croatians... these attacks on myself are totally unprovoked, and
I know that i'm not the only one in this country that has received the same treatment..
It's sad when both my close croatian, and even albanian mates have to tell me that they're sorry for this happening.
Why they bring these wars from back home here to Australia, i dont know....?

a pa tak reci da si odavde =)
I missunderstood, sorry. The emigration is more or less right winged, because most of them fled from Yugoslavia, and the people near the borders still remember the war. Although you must admit that many of the Crvena Zvezda fans were nationalists. There are many skinheads on the stadiums.

i don't know a whole lot about the Balkans as i am not from there, but it's a shame to see so much infighting between so many different peoples in one area of the world. in Toronto there are Serbs, Croats, Albanians, etc. all living in one city and it is not to say that people do not have biases , but you don't see so much aggression against one another.. it's quite peaceful actually.

hopefully that area will one day find some peace..

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