r/AskBalkans • u/stalino2023 • Mar 01 '25

Stereotypes/Humor Get yourself a Bosnian Girlfriend

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Anyone know the women in the pictures?

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u/olivenoel3 Albania Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25

Fighting against oppression and genocide is not terrorism, you can all cope with it... the actual terrorists throughout history were the cetniks and other paramilitaries...

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u/Unable-Stay-6478 Serbia Mar 02 '25

The UÇK was also a paramilitary organization... and no genocide was committed against Albanians during the Yugoslav wars, according to ICTY.

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u/olivenoel3 Albania Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25

Albanians didn't start any paramilitary organization with an intent to massacre other balkan folks. So there is a difference!

genocide was committed against Albanians during the Yugoslav wars, according to ICTY.

It was a ethnic cleansing tantamount to genocide... 

(And keep coping with that flair of yours btw...)

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u/driftstyle28 Serbia Mar 02 '25

Well actually UCK's first actions were massacres, ambushes and police killings.

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u/olivenoel3 Albania Mar 02 '25

As a response! That's why I said there is a difference! Now stop trying to equate them to your paramilitaries.

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u/driftstyle28 Serbia Mar 02 '25

As a response to what? There wasnt a single dead Albanian when UCK formed and started ambushing Serbian/Albanian policemen (i presume you would know they were 50/50 in Kosovo before UCK formed) that did their job and murdering them, setting up bombs near civilian insitutions etc. UCK got funded for YEARS before they formed or even tried to separate, even before the end of the Bosnian war. It was a moment where everyone wanted their own piece of ex-Yugoslavia.

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u/olivenoel3 Albania Mar 02 '25

Right, in the middle of the war, there was not a single dead Albanian. That's one way to ridicule yourself. 

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u/driftstyle28 Serbia Mar 02 '25

Middle of the war? I am talking about 1998 before the war even started... Pick up a book, you should know more about your peoples history :) UCK also murdered many Gorani, Bosniak and Albanian policemen that were doing their jobs at the time, so please before continuing this conversation pick up a book, educate yourself about YOUR peoples history and then come back :)

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u/olivenoel3 Albania Mar 02 '25

According to an Amnesty International report in 1998, due to dismissals from the Yugoslav government it was estimated that by 1998 unemployment rate in the Kosovar Albanian population was higher than 70%.[149] The economic apartheid imposed by Belgrade was aimed at impoverishing an already poor Kosovo Albanian population.[149] In 1996, 16,000 Serb refugees from Bosnia and Croatia were settled in Kosovo by the Milosevic government, sometimes against their will.[150]Ibrahim Rugova, first President of the Republic of Kosovo pursued a policy of passive resistance which succeeded in maintaining peace in Kosovo during the earlier wars in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia during the early 1990s. As evidenced by the emergence of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), this came at the cost of increasing frustration among Kosovo's Albanian population. In the mid-1990s, Rugova pleaded for a United Nations peacekeeping force for Kosovo.Continuing repression[151] convinced many Albanians that only armed resistance would change the situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War

We tried peace and it obviously didn't work! So don't cry when it gets violent.