Crow: being dictator is one thing but, war criminal is something else. So, let me tell you that we know for sure that he was dictator but, there were/are not proofs that he was war criminal Who ordered the JNA to attack in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia?
As I said - Milosevic had the power to dictate what went on. If he had stepped in and said "enough" - that would've been it. Nothing happened in Yugoslavia and in "Greater Serbia' without his knowledge and consent, that much is certain. Ultimately, he has to take responsibility for what Serbians were doing.
You will surely agree that Tudjman was just as much a war criminal, though?
Crow: From that position Milosevic was among those who hijacked communist party of Yugoslavia and suggested pollitical changes to multiparty system, democratization. Milosevic hijacked Serbian sentiment for his own motives, that much is clear. I don't believe for one second that ordinary Serbs want(ed) to kill and murder their fellow Yugoslav people - although it's probably fair to say that they wanted areas which were Serb-controlled and of course these people looked to Belgrade.
Crow: Anyway, in one moment, EU and NATO decided to destroy Yugoslavia but Milosevic resisted to that process. Milosevic destroyed Yugoslavia - just certain countries stupidly managed to encourage him. It's pretty obvious from the JNA's lack of will in fighting Slovenia that Milosevic had no real intentions in keeping Yugoslavia together and wanted a Serbia that brought together all Serbian people. Tudjman had exactly the same motives with Croatia - in fact, if it wasn't for Croatian atrocities during WW2 towards Serbs, I could easily see Bosnia carved up between Serbia and Croatia.
Then again Crow - what do you think, was Yugoslavia capable of democracy?
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