Serbia, from a female perspective

One gets to hear all kinds of opinions in Skypeland. We had a lady from Serbia who came in to visit us. We have had several Serbian guys visit, and a couple of males from Kosovo, and it is very interesting. She did not understand why Bush seemed to be supporting the Kosovo efforts for independence and what was going on.

I gave my description of happened in the former Yugoslavia, with Serbia attacking its neighbors, hordes of refugees crossing the borders into Italy and the rest of Europe, reports of slaughter from Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and other sites, etc. The European Union was unable to handle the situation by themselves and appealed to the US for assistance. After a long long deliberation, finally the US agreed to help and stopped the killing and arrested Milosovich, who was put on trial in the International Criminal Court in The Hague. An international tribunal of judges from all over the world, and a team of defense and prosecution lawyers put him on trial for a long time, and Milosovich died in the middle of the trial. My impression is that the former Yugoslavia has been pretty calm since then.

She objected quite a bit to this. She claimed that there were never any rufugees. She claimed that the European Union had not asked for help. She claimed that there had been no slaughtering or raping and pillaging by the Serbian forces. She claimed the charges leveled against Milosovich were mostly false. She seemed completely confused and unable to understand why this had happened to Serbia. I asked her several times why, if Serbia had done nothing wrong, was the International Criminal Court trying him (and seemed to be well on the way to convicting him when he died), and why the European Union and NATO and the UN had all decided that Serbia was in the wrong in the conflict. She did not seem to have any answer, and just seemed clueless. When we talked about what had happened 800 years ago that Serbians were so angry about, I said I did not care whatever happened back then, and she was irritated and made sarcastic comments that I would not care since my country was not so old, or that I should just shut up and go away since I did not care about it (although she had come to our skypecast room).


She wanted the US to leave their country and leave them alone. The host asked her if Serbia received any foreign aid from the USA. She denied that Serbia received any foreign aid from the USA. She also called the female host a bitch, so the host threw her out of the room.

We looked, and sure enough Serbia in 2006 received 60 million dollars of aid from the United States:
http://serbia-montenegro.usaid.gov/code/navigate.php?Id=37

There was even an apology by the Serbian president recently for war crimes Serbia committed during the war:
http://www.birn.eu.com/en/89/10/3417/