John Griswold
1 min readMar 12, 2022

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I don't really care how Serbians feel about America, and I certainly don't think you consider the facts I bring up in this discussion. Do you deny that the Bosnian war was brutal, deadly, filled with atrocities committed on all sides? Do you deny that the Serb forces surrounded Sarajevo with heavy artillery and snipers and pounded the civilian population trapped there, or that the Serbian siege lasted almost 4 years, closely mirroring the tactics now used by Russia to level cities in Syria, targeting hospitals and schools in particular?

Have you never considered that the U.N directed NATO air campaign against the Serb heavy weapons forced them to withdraw and end the siege? Are you not aware of the Serbian campaign of "ethnic cleansing" that destroyed Bosnyak towns, forced the residents into appalling concentration camps, separated men and boys for execution and mass burials, used rape on the imprisoned women as a weapon of war? And finally are you not aware that the NATO intervention forced the parties to the Dayton negotiations which ENDED the war?

As an anti war person I would think you would applaud the ending of a horrific ethnic war, even if that ending cost the lives of combatants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sarajevo

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John Griswold
John Griswold

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