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by helij 994 days ago
This reads like propaganda piece. Today we know it was not black and white like that. Balkans is relatively peaceful these days yet we see constant attacks on Serbs in Kosovo (primary school got demolished the other day which is pure fascism) and sometimes in eastern Croatia as well (not allowing the use of Serbian language/Cyrillic alphabet).

All in all when can we expect Serbs to have paid their 'debt' not to see attacks on Serbian children anymore for example?

You bring a lot of past into the debate and somehow try to portray that Serbs today are guilty and deserve it when they get oppressed, beaten or killed. Sounds like a witch hunt to me.

Just today three more Serbs were beaten by police in Kosovo.They accused them of illegally crossing the border, booked them and then let them leave. Those three people went home to their houses in, wait for it ... Kosovo. Fine, if they illegally crossed the border you book them. No need to beat them right. But unfortunately this is now standard procedure there.
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C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 994 days ago
If there are illegal attacks on Serbs (especially children, as you put it), then they should stop and no country should mistreat its citizens. Furthermore, it would be better for everyone to reduce tensions and promote unity and peace, obviously. So that covers that.

Now, Serbia needs to stop waging wars in other countries and stop promoting nationalism that has historically lead to constant violence. Serbia has its history and it earned its reputation by its own acts. It would be extremely foolish for Serbia's neighbouring countries to ignore that history.

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helij 993 days ago
Why do you keep saying Serbia should stop waging wars when Serbia actually didn't wage any wars in the last 24 years at least? If you don't count Kosovo war (considering it's Serbia's territory as per the UN) then it's more like 28 years.

It would also be extremely foolish for Serbia to ignore hostilities towards Serbs from others. How long into the past can we go? 24 years, 20, 50, 100, 200, 300? Violence in 2004 on Kosovo? I mean you seems to be perfectly fine excusing current terror against Serbs by something that happened 25 years ago. The whole issue in the Balkans is lack of trust due to experience with each other, which is not really good. You can't have favourites here.

What you're writing is pure nonsensical propaganda with throwing out 'promoting nationalism, constant violence'. Show me an example of Serbia promoting violence in the last 20 years? I think they are quite pacified. Kosovo is a complex issue and you can't just expect a sovereign country to give a part of their internationally recognized territory away. I guess you equate Serbia not recognising Kosovo as independent country as promoting nationalism and violence. It's like saying Ukraine is promoting violence when they fight in Donbas. Serbia and Kosovo were on their way to peace and some kind of normality when EU negotiated the treaty 10 years ago. Guess who it is that didn't implement what they signed. What is happening today is a direct consequence of that.

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