10 Years On, was Milošević ultimately a force for good in the Balkans?

[deConteville]

I think there's arguments for both sides.

 

[Qwerty7]

I think there's arguments for both sides.

One could say this for just about anything. In this case, one of the sides has an argument which does not involve supporting someone who practiced massive political repression and ethnic cleansing.

 

[Herbert West]

No.

 

[Fishman786]

He put people in death camps...

 

[Eusebio]

His nationalist grandstanding accelerated the dissolution of Yugoslavia and in a violent way. I don't see how that can be argued.

 

[Abdul Goatherd]

Ten years on from what?

 

[Andre Bolkonsky]

Suggesting a leader made a nation better through genocide is a very dangerous game.

 

[Herbert West]

I'll give him one thing, and one thing only. He as right that if the croats in Bosnia deserve self-determination and their own state/annexation by the mother country, then so did the bosnian Serbs. Naturally, being a nationalist hypocrite, he did not extend this to the Vojvodinan Hungarians, or the Kosovar Albanians. Scumbag.

That is to say nothing of the methods of the war crimes of the serbs.

 

[pithorr]

He is directly responsible for the nightmare of Yugo Wars and eventually the misery of Serbia. I think even Danub despises him.

 

[Finnish Dragon]

Suggesting a leader made a nation better through genocide is a very dangerous game.

Indeed. I wonder how many articles of Serbian Constitution of 1990 did Milosevic actually violate? The link is to the English translation of the Serbian Constitution of 1990.

http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/UNTC/UNPAN019071.pdf

 

[gagenater]

I think there's arguments for both sides.

What is the other side? I mean he’s an evil genocidal maniac who destroyed a nation in order to kill more people. Is there another side outside of small minded Serbian nationalist fantasyland?

 

[Kovax]

If being so much of a problem that the backlash results in legislation to prevent something like that from ever happening again is "making things better", then he made improvements. Other than that, I can't see much good in what he did, but a lot of blatant evil.

 

[Sarmatia1871]

What is this nonsense I don't even know.

 

[th3freakie]

I think there's arguments for both sides.

As in both Serbians and non-Serbians who have good arguments to hate his guts?

 

[Had a dad]

While the trial against him for numerous crimes against humanity never finished, We're sorry, but this is not a subject that we will allow to continue on the forum.

 

[Blade!]

Also, please review the ofrum rules and OT rules re: genocide which apply to the history forum.