But many Serbs hold on to their sense of historical exceptionalism and unique suffering. Indeed, the coincidence of the NATO bombing in 1999 with the indictment of Milosevic helped convert both events into “attacks on the Serbian people.”
但鼓励种族和解对任何法庭来讲都是脱离现实的要求，前南国际法庭也无法实现这样的目标。自由的政治秩序包含着承认已有先例和进行类似推理的法律原则，但很多塞族人都不肯放弃自己的历史例外论，认为自己有着独特的遭遇。实际上，1999年的北约轰炸与对米洛舍维奇的指控都被看成是“对塞尔维亚人民发起的攻击。”