Utah mall gunman was Srebrenica survivor, cousin says

CERSKA, Bosnia (Reuters) -- The 18-year-old gunman who shot five people to death in a Salt Lake City, Utah, shopping mall was a survivor of the siege that ended in the Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Bosnia's 1992-95 war, a cousin said on Wednesday.

Sulejman Talovic, who was killed by police after Monday's shooting spree in which he also wounded four people, fled his village with his family during the Bosnia war to Srebrenica, a U.N.-protected enclave, Redzo Talovic said.

They spent two years in the town, during which Bosnian Serb forces besieged the enclave and Talovic's grandfather was killed by shellfire, Redzo Talovic said.

That's is even more of a reason why he is angry at America. From 1992 to 1995 Serbs massacred more than 100,000 Bosnians for 3 yeaers. Know one did a thing about it. This was the same thing Hitler tried to do, this was a War of Agression, and it was difinitely not a civil war. The world turned its back on what was happening, and America knew about it, but they believed it was the Europeans problem, and finally near the end they came in. It was the Bosnian fighters and the Muslim Mugahidians that helped save the Muslims from disappering totally from Yugaslovia.

Massacring more than 100,000 people in Bosnia is not a good thing!! Yugoslavians were terrible and they were doing the same exact thing that Hitler was doing. Killing people just because of their religion is wrong, and you cant say that the serbs should have finished that. What about Eric Robert Rudolph he was a christian terrorist who committed a series of bombings across the southern United States, which killed three people and injured at least 150 others. Does that mean we have to say the same thing about them. That we have to murder thousands of Christians, because of that. There is more to violence than religion.

“It was the Bosnian fighters and the Muslim Mugahidians that helped save the Muslims from disappering totally from Yugaslovia.” You wrote-
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It was the USAF and US (Army) which stopped the conflict. I suggest you Google what Deliberate/Allied Force was all about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Allied_Force http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_NATO_bombing_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina

You use inflated casualty statistics that can not be backed by any credible source.

You argue using a fallacy “Two wrongs make a right.” The Serbs did bad things so you rationalize his behavior based on that.

You lack correlation. It is questionable if he was there in the first place. The statement that he escaped is loosely used. At the time of the massacre which traumatized him allegedly he would have been around 4 or 5 years old. Let me let you in on something, since liberals love Psychology: Childhood amnesia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia

Most people can't remember anything prior to the age of four when they are adults. Many of the things you think you remember from when you were younger are actually your imagination and it is often memories created when you were older (say six or seven). You think you remember things, because your parents tell you about them (for example) but you don’t really.

I really don't have time to dissect what you wrote. But you might want to try thinking about you reasoning before you post. An emotional outcry does not cut it.

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