The Butcher of Europe: Slobodan Milosevic
Posted on September 1, 2007
Filed Under Culture
When separate yet closely related atrocities under Slobodan Milosevic leadership against roughly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and women occurred between 1999 to 2001 one would call that horrific tragedy with various different adjectives. (1) A genocide ‘regrettably’ done by an european ultra-nationalist; (2) An attrocities carried out by Christian terrorists of Europe.
When the attrocities happened, I was in my early days of study. I tended to call it then–like some Indonesian Muslims–as the latter.” But after I started studying international politics, my understading towards particular happenings in other parts of the world are getting better.
I know now that such horrific cruelty could not have been done by any sane human. There are times when the craziness for power overwhelming any human conscience, the insanity and lust for power could do anything with any pretext possible to justify his/her acts; be it ethnicity, religiosity, nationalism, or whatever. Slobodan Milosevic against Muslims in the Balkans, Usamah bin Ladin against humanity (Muslims & non-Muslims in 9/11 twin tower attacks in New York), George Bush and Tony Blair in Iraq against the Arabs and Muslims, etc.
Do it first, and justify it later. There are many scholars–religious and secular alike– in this world who are voluntarily and economically-motivated prepared to be the tools of greedy politicians. And the citizen of the world should not only take what they are writing in their op-ed pieces and voluminous books for granted. Our conscience should be the basic principle in judging any occurrence and phenomena. The credibility should not lie only on how many references in our writings are based on.
Speaking of Slobodan Milosevic, he’s now no longer, died in an unknown cause of death as reported by CNN and BBC yesterday. Let’s not hope he’ll be alive again.
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