It all boils down to the question:

Were the Serbian State and its organs the victims of foreign aggression? (As some, more nationalistically inclined, parties like to continue to portray it?)
Or was the Serbian State governed by aggressive nationalists, who used state power as a tool for genocide and war crimes, the likes of which Europe hadn't seen in fifty years?

Some debunking of Serbian nationalistic myths:
Serbia is never alone held responsible.
Nor was this the case in the 1990s - this simplification never existed.
It is not 'The West' vs Serbia. The West is a mere sideshow to internal Serbian politics.

Meh, why type myself when so many reporters and truth committee's within former Yugoslavia spend so much time reporting to the world, or, in this case, to the human rights tribune in Geneva:
30 June 09 - Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor plans to investigate the role of media in fomenting ethnic hatred and encouraging war crimes during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. But for many observers it is too little, too late

IWPR/Iva Martinovic in Belgrade, Goran Vezic in Split, Dzenana Karabegovic in Sarajevo and Biljana Jovicevic in Podgorica - The investigation announced earlier in June opens the possibility of prosecuting journalists for biased reports published at the bidding of nationalist regimes across former Yugoslavia.

The investigation grew out of testimony heard during Belgrade trials on the massacre of 200 Croats at the Ovcara farm near Vukovar in 1991 and the murder of 25 Bosniaks in Zvornik in 1992, when some of the accused said that certain reports from electronic media incited them to commit the crimes.

The prosecution will not limit itself to the Ovcara and Zvornik cases, but “a comprehensive analysis is being conducted in which journalist and media experts, domestic and foreign, are involved”, he added. The investigation will not cover only Serbian media, but those in Bosnia, Montenegro and Croatia as well. “We want to be completely clear that we as prosecutors want to find elements of possible crime, which would be consequently taken to another level – a criminal proceeding,” Vekaric said.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, has not indicted any journalists for war crimes nor passed any such cases down to local courts. In contrast, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania has found three Rwandan journalists guilty of stoking ethnic hatred during the 1994 genocide. Two were jailed for life and a third was sentenced to 35 years.
The most notorious journalist to ever face trial was Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, founder and publisher of Der Stuermer newspaper, a central cog in the Nazi propaganda machine, who was sentenced to death at Nuremberg.
No one has yet been named in the Serbian probe, but speculation abounds that it will focus on the more blatant war-mongering by loyalists of the late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic.
But whereas the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has not indicted journalists, Serbia's own war crime prosecuters might. Including this state television that was bombed.

“It’s late because so much time has passed, many have died or have been forgotten, and it’s early, because many of those who were then orchestrating media are still in power, in politics, and are still indirectly influencing media through the political parties they are in,” said Filip David, former editor of drama programmes at Serbian state TV.

Lazar Lalic, who produced the series Pictures and Words of Hatred, dealing with the role of state TV in the wars, said the prosecution would have little trouble finding material for its investigation.
“Documentation exists. It all comes down to instigating propaganda, which was horrible and which managed to make thousands in Serbia volunteer to fight,” said Lalic. “In general, I am a sceptic regarding those trials. It seems to me that things are going in reverse direction. Those people should have first been forbidden from working in media.”
All quotes from this
IWPR article about war crimes prosecution of media within, and by, states in former Yugoslavia.


Serbia as the poor victim of foreign agression? No. Genocidal it was, and truth is what is needed, not victimization. This, I am sorry to say, I think an affront to the massacred.