Wealthy foreigners 'paid for chance to shoot civilians in Sarajevo'

>No, the evidence is an Italian writer who did years of research, including a Bosnian former intelligence officer as a key source

I can't read the article, but none of this really contradicts OP's point, which is that all of this hinges on hearsay. Is there any evidence presented that isn't hearsay?

So far it sounds like anti-Western and anti-Bosnian Serb propaganda emanating from the 2022 Slovenian documentary Sarajevo Safari with archetypal comic-book style bad guys always referred to as "wealthy foreigners", AKA nihilistic Western elites, the last gasps of pure evil popping from the bubbling froth on the rotting corpse of Capitalism.

Doesn't this logic just cause a cascade? eg. "we all know group X is deprived, so it wouldn't surprise me that they did something even more deprived, which lends further evidence for them being deprived!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_cascade

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There were snipers on all sides doing immoral things. The war in Sarajevo started when a Serbian wedding was shot up in April 1992, causing the Serbs to panic and want to secede from Bosnia & Herzegovina. Then you end up with "rights for this ethnic group but not the other", and a civil war breaks out with geopolitical meddling from foreign wanna-be powers.

Interesting video. "Poet" shooting at a city with another "poet" Karadzic. Curious that they speak English, wasn't Russian taught at schools in Yugoslavia? And Karadzic's command post being a cable car.

Limonov was here for ideological reasons. All sides had foreigners in their ranks of various motivations, from the mercenary and the adventurer to the strongly ideologically motivated. What is missing is evidence of people coming there for pure entertainment and paying for the privilege...

Not the OP, but

>As of April 2025, no bodies have been exhumed from the suspected gravesites, largely due to a lack of community consensus on whether to investigate detected anomalies at the risk of disturbing burials.[9] As of January 2024, at least three official excavations had been performed with no bodies discovered, though at least one excavation only investigated a portion of the reported ground anomalies at that site.[10][11][12] Disputes regarding the conclusiveness of the evidence has helped spawn a movement of denialism about the existence of some or all residential school burial sites.[9][13][14] Indigenous groups and academics have dismissed claims of a "mass grave hoax", saying that claimed discoveries of mass graves were present in a minority of stories published by mainstream media and that there had been public misinterpretation of what had actually been announced in 2021.[15

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...

It sounds like the "mass" part of the "mass graves" is disputed, and there's motte-and-bailey on both sides (eg. "you must think nobody/bazillion died in residential schools") muddying the dispute.

Only four supposed mass graves have been investigated and all four found no bodies. There is no credible evidence that says there are mass graves

How do you feel about Quillette? https://quillette.com/2025/02/27/four-years-zero-graves-now-...

There seem to be clear admission of war crime, that looks like prime indictment material by the ICC, which could make traveling not so cosy in the future.

So there is no actual evidence, and you're committing a hate crime if you ask to see evidence or point out that there's no evidence.

If a white person has a drunk uncle or crazy aunt tell a wild conspiracy theory at a family gathering, people dismiss them as a kook. But if an indigenous person does the same thing, it's supposed to be treated as sacred cultural knowledge being passed down?

I have an uncle who swears there are thousands of people who've been killed by Bill and Hillary Clinton. He has lists and websites and links to obituaries about deaths "deemed suicides" or "not investigated" or "unsolved". I don't think that my skepticism about his claims is violence or hate.