I remember watching a video, this was sometime around 90-91 of the conflict just escalating in Croatia.
There were some dudes in cop uniforms (the Croatian army wasn't even set up yet, as skirmishes were still isolated incidents at this point).
Anyways, there was a family driving through a Serbian village in croatia, and they got pulled over...and to make a long story short, the cops were examining the charred remains of the car with the bodies of the family still in it. I remember one cop crying in the video saying this won't go unpunished. Kinda fucked up to watch that at 8 years old, but it's (Eastern) Europe, no such thing as censorship over there, at least at that time.
The whole war was somewhat of a success story because the Yugoslavian Army (that turned into the Serbian Army) was in about the top 3 in the world
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_People%27s_Army, 1 million reservists on call), and to not let them just run the country over overnight was a success, much less resist for 5 years.
Which brings up another point: America bashing. America being called a dictator of the world, ruthless, etc. sure doesn't mean much when F16's came in and ended the war overnight by bombing anything that moved in Serbia. Many treaties and withdrawals ensued by the end of the week. I say police away, because most of the world is still too savage.