The violence in Serbia began in 1989 when Yugoslavia broke up. It continued until 1995 with the end of the Croatian - Serbian War. There has been dearly little violence since 1995 until three years later when tensions flared after elections.
Those tensions caused violence once again in 1998 through 1999. Eventually, in October 2000, Slogodan Milosevic was removed from power. Since that day the area has settled it's tensions and differences, basically along ethnic lines, with elections. The revolutions stopped, Yugoslavia was dissolved and there were now separate independent nations as illustrated below in a Wiki graphic.
Today, Serbia is rattled by a reminder of violence and senseless killing. Serbia's worst peacetime shooting: 13 killed, including women and child (click here)
Published time: April 09, 2013 07:06
Edited time: April 09, 2013 12:21
A war veteran has shot and killed 13 people in Serbia, including six women and a 2-year-old toddler. The suspect in the country’s worst shooting since the end of the Serb-Croat War turned the gun on himself, and remains in critical condition.
The killing spree took place in the village of Velika Ivanca, some 50 kilometers southeast of the Serbian capital Belgrade.
The suspect was identified as 60-year-old Ljubisa B., according to Belgrade emergency hospital spokesperson Nada Macura.
Serbian media reported that the gunman’s family name is Bogdanovic, and that the child he shot and killed was only 2 years old....
Radmilo Bogdanovic cries in the village of Velika Ivanca, Serbia. His brother Ljubisa Bogdanovic gunned down 13 people, including a baby, in a dawn shooting spree. Photo / AP
This is most likely the outcome for Iraq. There will be divisions among ethnic lines and new nations will result. It is on it's way already.
This is most likely the outcome for Iraq. There will be divisions among ethnic lines and new nations will result. It is on it's way already.
These events don't happen regularly in the world outside the USA. The last time such killing took place it was due to a war for independence.
In the USA, these killings happen in multiple events in any given year now. The are an average of 30,000 people dead per year in the USA.
Georgia published in 2000 in medical journal the Lancet estimated that "12,000 deaths in the total population" could be attributed to war. In June 2000, the Red Cross reported that 3,368 civilians (2,500 Albanians, 400 Serbs, and 100 Roma) were still missing, nearly one year after the conflict.
Twelve thousand deaths during an entire war and nearly 3400 missing. That happens in the USA every six months.
There is a lot wrong with the culture of violence and guns in the USA. We were awaken to it again in Connecticut, we need to resolve it now.
My sympathies to the families in Serbia. This is a national tragedy.
