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Serbian Brutality - ethnic slaughter and human rights abuse.
The situation in Kosovo offers an example of the most serious form of human rights abuse: ethnic slaughter.The crisis in the Serbian province of Kosovo has once again forced the international community to confront the seemingly inextinguishable thirst in the heart of humanity for violence. Mass murder, despite the many reminders we leave for ourselves by preserving the empty furnaces at places like Auschwitz and Buchenwald, still seems to be regarded as a viable alternative, transcending ethnic and racial boundaries. Though outrage on an international scale tends to follow the discovery (whether latent or immediate) of such acts, one always feels that an act of true evil must be coupled with some other interest--economic or political--in order to truly gain the undivided attention of the international community. The question, then, is not whether acts of ethnic persecution and genocide will happen again, since the record of history has proven them to be irrepressible. Instead, the question is why they continue to haunt humankind throughout histor
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/inside_kosovo/posto_selo.stm
Comment: #1
Posted by: Fini
Tue Jun 2, 2009 2:40 PM
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