Their behaviour was termed genocide by the Hague.
Are we rating genocide now on a scale from 1-10?
Genocide is genocide.
Oh course it was genocidal. But yes, there's a scale. These massacres fortunately never reached the level of planning and execution comparable to the Holocaust.
That's fair enough.
You have to excuse my impertinence. I have extended in-law relatives who are Bosnian, and what they went through in the 1990's was nothing short or traumatic at a most extreme level.
When you visit them in Bosnia, they have no male relatives left. All shot dead in the war.
Then you understand the gravity of what the Serbs did to such an amazingly peaceful people.
When you walk past a primary school in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and there are over 50 memorial plaques to the young students who were murdered during the war, it really hits home how brutal the Serbs were against the actual women and children population of this town.
The Serbs were gutless. They lay siege to Sarajevo which was without an army or defenses other than land mines.
They unleashed mortar and sniper fire on unarmed women and children daily for 2 years.
As soon as NATO bombed there positions in 1995, they folded and went back to Serbia, claiming as much real estate as they could on their way out the door.