Human nature in the Balkans--and here

From: The Spectator | Date: July 3, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Events in Kosovo these last three months or so must have left many of us wondering what to think about human nature. Kosovo Serbs massacred Kosovo Albanians. Kosovo Albanians, if the Nato occupiers would let them, would undoubtedly massacre Kosovo Serbs and, in a few incidents, have already done so. Yet most Kosovo Serbs and most Kosovo Albanians would have been brought up since the second world war. Like Western Europeans and North Americans, and people in many other parts of the world, they would have had it dinned into them what the Nazi experience showed and proved: that one should not ...

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