Wealthy foreigners ‘paid for weekend safaris to kill civilians’ during siege of Sarajevo

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1. Is it wealth that makes people evil? Or are evil people more likely to become wealthy? Between this and the Epstein files, we need a purge of these “wealthy elite” from society. Just put them all together on an island somewhere, like Lord of the Flies.

2. I will remain skeptical until more evidence comes out. This reeks of an urban legend/satanic bullshit of the 90s. Has there been any credible reports of foreign civilians joining militaries to kill civilians for fun (outside of the IDF and ISIS)?

   Also, I remember there being many stories about Serbian snipers killing civilians that turned out to either be fiction or hoaxes. The one that stands to mind is some story about a sniper asking the journalist next to him which civilian to kill, the journalist refused, so the sniper killed both. Turned out to be false.

   Italy is also known to prosecute people on very little evidence in sensational stories…

3. That’s just like “murder tourism” in The Purge movies.
   The scariest thing for me in that movie was that I could actually see it being implemented in real life, and unfortunately I was right.

4. I think this is pretty common. I’ve read similar about the Syrian civil war. Or vloggers traveling to Afghanistan to shoot guns with the Taliban, though they aren’t actually shooting against people.

5. You can join the IDF as a contractor and do the same in Palestine.

   It is sad that this is the state of our world where military tourism / adventurism masks the evils associated with military employees.

6. Yeah, that headline’s definitely written for clicks, but it’s not completely baseless either.

   The idea comes from a 2022 documentary called Sarajevo Safari, which featured testimony claiming that a handful of wealthy foreigners were brought by Serb forces to sniper positions around the city during the siege, and allegedly fired on civilians. It wasn’t described as some open “weekend safari” industry, more like a dark, secret indulgence for a few well-connected people.

   Italian prosecutors have actually opened an investigation into the claims after the film drew renewed attention, so there’s at least enough there to warrant digging deeper. But so far, no solid proof or named individuals have been verified in court, which is no real surprise either and no evidence suggests it was widespread or officially sanctioned, again not really surprising due to the nature of the allegation.

   So yeah, it could have happened on a small, horrific scale, but the “paid safaris to kill civilians” headline makes it sound like a mass tourist pastime, which really isn’t what the available evidence shows.

7. there’s such thing as poverty tourism where wealthy people go to impoverished areas of developing countries and bribe officials to be given immunity from their activities. Think the worst things, that’s happening regularly.

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