Many had to leave simply because the war created chaos and economic devastation - only some - the politically correct - were given most help and opportunity to sit out the war and receive housing, aid, schooling, jobs.
The ones who had to stay and endure the wars or lived in refugee camps for years (the Serbs) had it the worst.
Serbs had 250,000 refugees driven from Croatia in just 3 days. (They had hundreds of thousands more driven from their homes in Bosnia during the war - but they were ALLOWED to come to Germany in those numbers.) They didn't have time to pack their bags, get on an airplane and being given apartments and homes and all sorts of help from host countries.
Serbia-Montenegro remains European country with largest number of refugees
Serbia-Montenegro has remained the European country with the most refugees, the UN refugee agency said Monday.
Although the number of refugees has diminished dramatically, the issue of refugees remains a major problem in Serbia-Montenegro, the Belgrade office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement to mark World Refugee Day, which falls on Monday.
Ten years ago, there were half a million refugees in Serbia- Montenegro, and currently the population of registered refugees is near 150,000, the statement said.
It said the Sarajevo declaration should be honored. According to the declaration, Serbia-Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia- Herzegovina should resolve the problem of refugees in their respective countries by the end of 2006.
Serbian Commissioner for Refugees Dragisa Dabetic has said that Serbia would try to resolve the problem of refugees mostly through the process of their integration into the local environment or their returning to their homes in Croatia or Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(walks away, laughing...)
Serbia wanted to extend lebensraum? WTH you are talking about? .
If you compare ethnic makeup of Yugoslavia 1941 (prior Hitler), 1945(after), 1991(prior breakup) and today, it is evident that the Serbs were pushed out from their homeland in Croatia, Bosnia and occupied Serbian province of Kosovo.
Your comparrison of Serbs with Nazis is the real problem of your posts - Nazi revisionism.
One more thing. During WWII, USAAF bombed Germany but suffered horrible casualty of 50%. It was not free turkey shooting of civilians. It was accepted cost of waging war.
In 1999, 19 NATO countries gang raped Serbia and murdered her citizens (not only Serbs) without any real riskto flight crews. NATO was not waging war, it was "humanitarian intervention"
Unlike allied command in WWII, NATO did not admit that citizens of Serbian cities are the prinicipal target although they were, as numbers show (5000+ killed and maimed civilians, 1000 killed and maimed soldiers, 14 tanks destroyed.)
As I said before, you attempt to falsify history and equate Serbs with Nazis.
You know, a$$hole, I am sick of your equating the Serbs with the Nazi scum. I find your insinuations disgusting and way out of line. At first I thought you were misinformed and then that you're slightly retarded. Now I am pretty sure you're a malicious, hateful cretin. Rest assured, the Admin will be notified.
From Red6
"You're no different than the German today complaining that they were bombed in WWII"
Why this belitting of the crimes of the NAZIs in WW2?
The entire total of deaths in the Bosnian civil war was 100,000. From all sides, both civilian and military. This was a 4 way civil war.
Muslim against Croat
Croat against Serb
Serb against Muslim
Secular Muslim ( Abdic ) against Islamist( Izebegovic )
Yet you compare the crimes of the Bosnian Serbs with the NAZIs?
I wonder.
Is this belittling the crimes of the NAZIs by accident or design. I say this because your hero, Izetbegovic, was a WW2 war criminal, his "Muslim Youth" ( Young Muslim )movement was based on the Fascistic Muslim Brotherhood and provided the canon fodder for the Handzar Division. Many of his lifelong political colleagues actually donned the SS uniform AND he named his Praetorian Guard , "Handzar", in honour of same said SS Division.
Is that why you whitewash the crimes of the NAZIs?