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#1 2003-02-13 12:43 am
- andy panda
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War on Serbia
I've been asking everyone this question so you might as well you.
A real activist professor was really irked when I asked this in class--she said she was too busy to protest at the time.
Remember, we killed a lot of innocents.
And, there argument could be made (not that I support it) that Serbia was acting properly in what was a late-20th century civil war.
But there were hardly any anti-war sentiments.
Except Greece. Greece kinda supported Serbia.
so did Austria.
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#2 2003-02-13 2:54 am
- redine
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Re: War on Serbia
From the majority of Slavic-euro point of views, the Albanians had no right to try to claim that land as theirs and even though a lot of the Serb soilders were brutal right now even resembling a Slav is very risky in Kosovo as the Albanian mafia has taken over. Too bad the United States, or more precisely the US media no longer cares about that part of the world so noone does anything.
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#3 2003-02-13 3:02 pm
- andy panda
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Re: War on Serbia
From what I've read, both sides were extremely brutal. The KLA is and was pretty much a terrorist group (I could be wrong, tell me why).
This would make bombing Serb cities and civillians even more worrying.
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#4 2003-02-13 10:11 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: War on Serbia
I remember being in my office when the protests were happening. At the same time, Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji was in town.
There were two groups of protesters. One, mostly people of Serbian background, shouting about NATO and the bombing. The other, mostly people of Chinese background, shouting about human rights violations in China. The former was yelling about unjust interference in the affairs of other countries. The other was calling on the West to pressure China to improve its policies.
Occasionally, scuffles broke out between the two groups of protesters. It was actually quite surreal. I overheard one of the Chinese protesters yelling at a Serb protester, "we must fight dictatorship everywhere!", while the Serb yelled back, "we shouldn't boss people around!"
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#5 2003-02-13 11:49 pm
- Neut
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Re: War on Serbia
Hehe, I can see the Fox "When Pacifists Attack" special now. 
Cross over the cell bars, find a new maze, make the maze from it's path, find the cell bars, cross over the bars, find a maze, make the maze from its path, eat the food, eat the path.
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#6 2003-02-13 11:51 pm
- andy panda
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Re: War on Serbia
I am not a pacifist, I am just an anit-hypocrite
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#7 2003-02-14 1:07 am
- Neut
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Re: War on Serbia
Didn't mean to imply you were, just the idea of people protesting injustice getting into fights is rather amusing.
Cross over the cell bars, find a new maze, make the maze from it's path, find the cell bars, cross over the bars, find a maze, make the maze from its path, eat the food, eat the path.
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