Slavs don't hate America. Most Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenians, Croats, Western Ukrainians the Western Slavs are quite pro-American. And even many of the Eastern Slavs Bulgarians, Macedonians, Eastern Ukrainians are quite friendly to the US. Even the sudepspoly hostile Eastern Slavs Russians, Serbs aren't particularly hostile, if you exclude the nationalists.You Americans should stop worrying that everyone hates you; that sort of paranoia seems to be encouraged by an American media that likes to exaggerate American sins and ignore the sins of other superpowers. As far as Serb refugees are concerned, there are refugees all over the former Yugoslavia, Serbs are hardly unique in this regard. I frequently go to Croatia, and most of the Croats and Bosnians I meet there seem to come from families that fled one part of ex-Yugoslavia or other. They've settled in Croatia and aren't planning to go back. On the other hand, I did meet quite a few Serbs in Croatia, which was a surprise; Serbs have returned, and some never left; they're probably not in the majority, but they're not insignificant in numbers, either. The current government in Croatia got more votes from Serbs living in Croatia than did Serb parties in the Croatian parliament.Interestingly enough, Jovan Pavlovic, the Mitropolit of the Serb Orthodox Church of Zagreb, has just made a public statement of solidarity with one of the freed generals, Ante Gotovina, who recently spoke to the Serbian media and urged all Serbs who have not yet returned to Croatia to do so. As niccolo and donkey noted above, the charges against the Croat generals were very dubious from the beginning, and based on standards of what constitutes acceptable shelling that are not followed by any military. There's no doubt that Kosovo has been taken from the Serbs, and that it is not easy to be a Serb in majority Albanian areas of Kosovo. However, the Serbs are also making things very difficult for themselves by essentially waging a quiet war of harrassment against the EU administration in Kosovo (EULEX). They want to separate the northern part of Kosovo, where the Serbs are a majority, from the rest and they hope that maintaining instability will help them accomplish that; hence the blockades, shooting at EU officials, and other acts of sabotage and hostility. On the other hand, the last thing the UN and EU want to deal with at the moment is more border changes.The Serbs were given the Bosnian Serb Republic a sizable chunk of property and they haven't been placed under any significant pressure to allow the hundreds of thousands of non-Serbs to return to those areas; the US and Europe aren't willing to give them any more, especially not in response to belligerent acts.The Russians keep teasing the Serbs with grandiose proclamations of Orthodox/Slavic brotherhood, and other such nonsense, but they haven't really done anything for the Serbs other than to encourage them in their belligerence.When I say the Serbs I don't mean all or even a majority of them, of course. The Serbs who vacation in Croatia during the summer, for example, are very pro-European, and quite skeptical of Russia and of Serb nationalism; however, they don't have much political clout. Their representative was Boris Tadic who, unfortunately, turned out to be incompetent and corrupt.