In this shocking and incredibly informative take on the Yugoslav Wars, Michael Parenti reveals a conflict that was deliberately designed to serve US and Western European interests. The breakup of Yugoslavia, a relatively socialistic country, saw a rise in poverty, economic destitution, and rampant political violence and corruption within the Republics that broke away from it (barring the violent ethnic wars). While there were legitimate violations of human rights on the side of the Serbs, Parenti reveals that the Croats, Bosnians, and Kosovars were also guilty of human rights violations, and yet those forces never received any reprimands from the US and Western Europe (all under the military “defense” treaty, NATO). On the other hand, NATO and its human rights organizations turned a blind eye on the Croats, Bosnians, and Kosovar forces and over-exaggerated and sometimes made-up the atrocities committed by the Serbian forces.
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Even with almost every Yugoslav republic breaking away from itself, the leftovers of Serbia and Montenegro refused to break away nor throw away its socialistic policies. Thus, from the late 1990s, NATO funded a Kosovar extremist group (an Albanian minority group within Serbia), whose leadership is debatably Serb-Albanian (as in, Albanians who had lived their entire life in Serbia) so an insurgency can be waged within Serbia while NATO drums up anti-Serbian propaganda in the international media. This ultimately culminated in the inhumane NATO bombings of Yugoslavia in 1999, where the targets had little (if any) military significance.