LINKS: The Tele on Srebrenica, and SIAW (at Drink-Soaked Trots for War) as well. I may take partial issue with SIAW on something, though:
"Let Ms Kandic speak for them, so that it’s clear that what happened at Srebrenica wasn’t a crime committed by “Serbs” (or even Serbians) against “Bosniacs” (or even Muslims), it was a crime committed by psychopaths, representing nobody but themselves and their boss Milosevic, against humanity:"
I think that's all well and good, so long as 'psychopath' is meant to stand in for the notion that these people were radically outside and reasonable person's ethical range and, as such, need to be opposed by everyone altogether, but I think it's important (especially when contrasting such people with 'humanity') to make sure that we remember that they're still human themselves, that is, people who intentionally and culpably rejected all that common standards of morality reject.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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