Are all Serbs guilty of ethnic cleansing?
(June 1999). Probably not. I am sure that many Serbs are honest people, just powerless against Milosevic’s folly. Nonetheless we keep witnessing disturbing behavior in Serbia by more or less ordinary citizens. Recently, the Serbian orthodox church condemned Milosevic; but not for the crimes he has committed: the church condemned Milosevic for not succeeding in the goal of greating a greater Serbia. In other words: for not succeeding in ethnic cleansing. Many Serbs have no excuse for supporting Milosevic. First of all, it is not true that they “don’t” know what has been happening in Kosovo. They view CNN (not to mention Italian, Hungarian and German tv) just like everybody else. Second, seven years later even the dumbest Serb must have learned the 1992 massacres committed in Bosnia by Ratko Mladic, and must have understood what happened throughout ex Yugoslavia. Serbs know exactly what Milosevic is doing: they know of the killings, of the rapes, of the forced deportation, of the destruc
