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As for the Serbs, the entire Serbian population of Kajina, a community that had existed there for centuries, was driven out towards the end of the Bosnia/Croatia phase of the wars that destroyed Yugoslavia. Large numbers of those who were too frail to leave were murdered.

Their killers, nationalists whose political forbears had helped massacre Serbs (and Jews) n the Second World War, in such a brutal fashion that members of the SS were disgusted, were undoutedly emboldened by the incredibly biased and one sided potrayal of the conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia.

This was the largest single piece of ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia. The fate of tens of thousands of Serbs and Roma in Kosovo following the Nato campaign there was a follow up.

And whatever hapened following the capture of Srebrenica by General Mladic's forces, it should be remembered that in the course of the Bosnian war there were horrendous and savage attacks on Serb villages launched from Bosnian cities such as Srebrenica in which significant numbers of civillians were killed. Revenge is neither an excuse nor a legal defence but there is such thing as context.

And yes, I know that Croats and Bosnians were put on trial for war crimes, but the bottom line is that more Serbs than any other nation were ethnically cleansed and more Serbs than any other nation have been put on trial for war crimes.