Ukraine Thread

[Gilrandir]

You should shell them, and then eat them. They're not human beings, anyway.

Only Putin can do something so inhumane...

I agree. Demonization was needless:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33445772

Just a glance from an outsider:
http://www.wrath-bearingtree.com/dispatches/

[CrossLOPER]

I agree. Demonization was needless:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33445772

Morally, an approval would have been right. They need to admit to it themselves. Someone was going to be pissed, regardless the decision. Russia chose to maintain good relations with a long-term allied government. It was going to be spun one way or another.

Just a glance from an outsider:
http://www.wrath-bearingtree.com/dispatches/

I am not sure what this is trying to argue. It's also filled with clichés.

The arguments are scattered. At one point, the author gains a fetishistic obsession with the hammer and sickle on the insignia on Aeroflot and suggests it is as unacceptable as Lufthansa displaying a Swastika on its insignia, and then proceeds to spend a great deal of time detailing why Nazi Romanticism might not be so bad.

[Brenus]

"Morally, an approval would have been right." Why? Bosnian Forces killed war prisoners, few thousands, figures are still unknown... It is difficult to know, but if the Bosnian had 8,000 men in position to fight, the town would have never fallen.
In order to match the number of 8,000, the Bosnian Government and UN are taking all unidentified bodies, do DNA (as DNA can show religion), but as all Bosnian are related, it is quite a complex thing.

As part of a reconciliation process, it doesn't seems to work either, as shown during the commemoration...

Awful as it was, it is not a genocide, but a war crime (women and children were not killed). The Hague Tribunal took a political stance on this one.

More than 100,000 Serbs were expelled from Kosovo, Churches burned (not that I am against to destroy Churches but not during an ethnic cleansing...), few thousands killed, but this was not a genocide. Same in Croatia, same in Bosnia.

So, why Srebrenica differed from the others?

[Gilrandir]

Awful as it was, it is not a genocide, but a war crime (women and children were not killed). The Hague Tribunal took a political stance on this one.

War crimes are committed against indiscriminate people. Here only one ethnic/confessional group was targeted. This was enough to qualify it as genocide.