Most horrible Yugoslav war

 

Not to mention mostly civilian casulties. On the Bosnian Muslim side for example about 69-70% of the casulities were civilian, and they over half of the total number of casulties. I would definetly say the Bosnian war was the worst and most devastating, alongside the Croatian one as a second place. Kosovo did not have a infrastructure to begin with, that region had traditionally been rather underdeveloped, hence the large influx of Kosovar workers throughout the rest of Jugoslavija.

Kosovo may have been poor even prior to the outbreak of the war, but, it doesn't change the fact that the war still brought immense destruction, leveling villages and even cities with the ground (only Prishtina, the capital, was spared). Some 10,000 people died, and 850,000 were displaced refugees. Perhaps in terms of material destruction, Kosovo does compare to Bosnia. Images of, for instance, the city of Mitrovica or Gjakova/Djakovica right after the war, are infact comparable to the destruction of Vukovar, Croatia.

 

As Leonidas said, Kosovo is also a fight still being fought. Nevertheless, it seems rather evident that the final outcome will be conditional independence. And from this perspective, or from the perspective of the province's majority, the war resulted in a victory. And this serves as an additional argument for the fact that Bosnia was the most horrible war, because although Bosnia is a sovereign state, it is divided in two units called FBiH and RS. And this cripples it as a state very much. Whereas Kosovo is far more homogeneous, and I suspect that it will not face this issue at the same level as Bosnia has, because of the size of the Serbian minority in Kosovo as opposed to Bosnia.

 

The Croatian War wasn't pretty either. But I would say that the Croats got pretty much what they wanted, and furthermore, they have recovered greatly, even to the point where a considerable proportion of Croatia's citizens are confident that EU needs Croatia more than vice-versa, and that membership isn't needed. So, if there are "winners" in a war, the Croats would fit into that category. Them and the Slovenes, though the 'war' in Slovenia wasn't so devastating, since there weren't many Serbs to live there to begin with.

 

Conclusively, all the wars in former Yugoslavia were horrendeous, and prooved that human beings are still capable of vicious crimes even after a massive tragedy such as that of WWII.

 

Regarding the topic, all wars are cruel, I wont vote, as my opinion would be biased

 

recently i read something about how serbian nationalists take an oath every year, claiming they will take revenge against turks too for the battle of kosovo, and hungarians for supposedly exploiting them in the middle ages.