Independence for Kosovo repairs two broken decades
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/18/kosovo.serbia
The following is reply to nabla who posted response to the my first comment on the Guardian article above.
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nabla:
Thanks for your detailed instruction about the reality of ICTY(International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia).
Indeed, the majority of Japanses might not know even where is Kosovo and probably has less interest.
But, among a football(soccer) fan in Japan, like me, has a sympathy with former Yugoslavia and Serbia. Dragan Stojkovic, might be most famous Serb in Japan, is also superstar in Japan. He backed to my favorite football team as a coach this year. Moreover a former coach of Japan national team is Ivica Osim(He is from Bosnia and Herzegovina)!
As for the reality of ICTY you say is not so surprise for the Japanese who know what was going on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East(knowns as Tokyo trial) after WW2. At the trial, Many poltical and militaly leaders was senteced to death penalty and executed by an unreliable evidence and Ex post facto law.
Its unfair trial and judgments obviously had a political purpose which spreading the propaganda that Japan empire is completly guilty and United States is a liberation army could provide free and democracy for Japanese people who has been sufferd from militarism and fascism. Unfortunatly, Its brainwash has a still great influence on the Japanese.
My position is "In a quarrel, both parties are to blame".
Even if serbs(made up Yugoslav People's Army mainly and then probably had a greater military power than other republics) committed more so-called "war crimes" than other parties, it would not mean that many Muslims, Croats, Albanians, NATO are all innocence and could avoid being indicted. All those parties also must be indicted in proportion with their crimes against Serbs in 1990s.
For example, innumerable bombs which had been dropped by NATO(United States) over Serbia includes "Depleted uranium ammunition". Whoever thought using uranium bomb for citizun is not quilty?
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前述のガーディアンコラムに投稿したコメントに対して珍しく良心的な返信があったので、返答しようとしたら、もう該当コラムのコメントは打ち切られてたのでここに書くw
正直、イラクやアフガンやアフリカとかで自爆テロとか虐殺とかあっても、個人的には所詮他人事で、激しく心が痛むということはないのに、旧ユーゴ含めセルビアやコソボにこんなに熱くなるのは、ピクシーやオシムや木村元彦氏の本の影響だろうと思ってましたが、それ以外にも内なる理由があったんだと、nabla氏への下記返信書いてて初めて気付いた。
セルビア人は(オスマントルコにもナチスにも屈しなかった)歴史ある誇り高き民族だが、信念を貫いてアメリカに刃向ったばっかりに、NATO軍に国土を爆撃され、コソボを占領され、国際社会と近隣諸国からは民族浄化の虐殺野郎だと一方的に非難され、旧ユーゴ国際戦犯法廷でもインチキな証拠で不当に裁かれている。
・・って状況が極東のどこかの国と似通ってませんか?道理でムカつく筈だよw

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