'bout time we pretended to be able to read algerian arabic, don't you think?
time to get eastern european on your asses: is everyone aware that yesterday the UN international court of justice found that it "could not prove strict intent" on behalf of the serbs to commit genocide in srebrenica. so, i guess they didn't MEAN to. whoops. genocide did take place, no doubt about that, but the only fault is that the serbian state didn't prevent it from happening. not that they MADE it happen, that they didn't PREVENT it from happening.
what does this verdict mean?? ...it means that the bosnian serbs are being blamed for the massacre because 'greater serbia' didn't have complete control over this military body. whatev. the serbian state could've prevented it, but had no hand in planning the event, and so owes no reparations- monetary or otherwise- to the victims. never mind that the whole notion of a greater serbia fueled these distinctions of national identity in the rest of former yugoslavia. not responsible. didn't mean to. not guilty.
is it because of the babushkas? is it because the balkan people are perceived to be a peasant sort of people that aren't real members of europe? i'm tapping into an argument here that takes dissertations to work out. but really, why doesn't anyone think this is absurd? because some of them write in cyrillic? because... they were once ottomans? is this some bizzare attempt on the part of the UN to de-barbarize the serbs by making them not guilty of such a barbarous crime? desensitizing the zone?
i don't know- i had much more of a critical analysis planned in my head earlier today but it got lost when i blew my nose.
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Dear sis, perhaps what we are witnessing is the attempt to white wash the incident and give the remaining serbs i.e. not Slobidon Milosovich Sp? a way out to rebuild the country.
Surely everyone knows what happened but what would they do impose sanctions?
I think it was a lame way of trying to foster "peace" in the future.
But come on it's Serbia, the only thing they have ever done is start wars.
P.S. Love the arabic.
Do you have latin?
canis est in via.
maybe the idea of a country being responsible is still too new for our nationalist sentiments. we can wage war, have parades, make sports teams, etc., but we can't be responsible, as a nation, for genocide. many serbs on the BBC forum said as much- "the country isn't responsible, it's the people, such as bosnian serbs, who are responsible". them, and mladic. this distinction between country and countrymen is important, but important enough to sweep the country under the table in the wake of genocide? a gesture to ensure peace, maybe, but a lame gesture at that.
a guilty verdict in an international court would be the only 'sanction' against serbia.
Well what is an international court anyway?
Who makes the rules and who follows them?
The international community is like 200 guys tied together al running in different directions. Sebia is living with the fruits of its labor like they have been for 200 years poor and downtrodden, the sick man of Europe.
Well what is an international court anyway?
Who makes the rules and who follows them?
The international community is like 200 guys tied together al running in different directions. Sebia is living with the fruits of its labor like they have been for 200 years poor and downtrodden, the sick man of Europe.
A sentiment so good I had to say it twice.
who's the healthy mama's boy of europe, then? big fat and dopey, it'd have to be.
Viva la France!
Grumio est vexat.
oh yeah well...
Illyricum aqua combibio
ME
ROMANES EUNT DOMUS
as you say domina
http://web.comhem.se/hansdotter/romanes.html
I'm glad to see my nephew-in-law can keep up with the Python references we Kentuckians occasionally throw out there.
Romani ite domum.
Now write it out a hundred times. If it's not done by sundown...
Easy there Kentucky.
Easy there Kentucky.
Easy there Kentucky.
Echo est hic? Primum audimus.
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