Yugoslav Wars Quotes

Milosevic was an outstanding politician who gave his all to serving his fatherland.

In 1999, NATO did impose a no-fly zone in Kosovo without seeking a U.N. resolution to carry out air strikes on Serbian forces.

The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to address the issue of Kosovo's status.

It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.

The time of Milosevic has long passed.

When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'

You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

I started moving towards Serbia when I felt my country, Yugoslavia, was being taken away from me. My feeling of nationality was not as strong as those around me who were attaching themselves to these absurd new entities.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

My opponents ask why we haven’t yet solved the Bosnian problem. Well, it started in 1369.

The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.

For 10 years, Kosovo was taboo. No one could officially tell the truth.

I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.

Coaches were all saying that I was really talented and I had potential, but coming from Serbia, it wasn't easy. The '90s were the hardest years for our country - we went through two wars.

There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb people and Yugoslavia were faced all these years.

In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.

The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.

It's not Beirut or Bosnia.

Take a look at the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The US was quite open about the reasons for the bombing. A main reason was to preserve stability and credibility. Serbia was interfering with stability, meaning that it was the one part of the Balkans that was not integrated into the Western-dominated (mostly US-dominated) system.

The fact is that there was a long war in which Serbia and its capital Belgrade were bombarded and attacked with missiles. It was a military intervention of the West and NATO against the then rump Yugoslavia.

It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,.