I have no personal stake in this one and don't even know any Serbs. Nonetheless when the **** got redy to hit the fan a second time in 1999 I made a maximal effort to figure out what was what and what turned up was diametrically opposite to all the propaganda. Serbs turn out to be the closest thing there is to normal, decent, middle class working people in the Balkans. There were about 25 ethnic groups in the Yugoslav confederation and only three of those i.e. croats, albunnies, and bosnians ever had any sort of a serious problem dealing with Serbs and those were the three groups most eager to side with Hitler in WW-II. In 99 there were people from a number of the surrounding countries all saying the same thing on usenet groups, i.e. "What the hell are you idiot yanks doing, Serbs are not the problem here, the problem is the albunnies."
Albanians are universally hated. Their normal MO is to ensconce themselves in some little corner of the other guy's country, do their super-breeding thing (avg 12 kids per family) for 20 or 25 years, and then try to break the little corner of the other country off into their "Greater Albania"
They were basically pissed at Milosevic because the guy was systematically outlawing every aspect of their culture, drug dealing, poisoning wells, murder, arson, traffic in women and underage girls, traffic in stolen vehicles etc. etc. etc.
There were about 25 ethnic groups in the Yugoslav confederation and only three of those i.e. croats, albunnies, and bosnians ever had any sort of a serious problem dealing with Serbs and those were the three groups most eager to side with Hitler in WW-II.Actually, the Magyars had issues with the Serbs, as did the Germans, and the Macedonians, and the Bulgars.
As for siding with the Germans in WW2, that should tell you what life was like under the Serbs for these people to have sided with the Germans against them.