Serbs offset Srebrenica regret by citing their own historical suffering

Evidence

In a typical posting, the author would admit that the Srebrenica massacre happened (after initial denial, most Serbians today acknowledge that it happened*), but quickly shift the attention to the suffering endured by Serbs during the wars in the 1990s, World War II, World War I, as well as many other battles and wars back to the 1389 battle against the Turks that is so central to Serbian national mythology (Anzulovic, 1999). In other words, amid postings that asked for an apology and expressed shame, there were advantageous comparisons of this sort that seemed to be the moral disengagement strategy of choice. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2095

Categorization

• XREF: Advantageous comparison as moral disengagement strategy connects to discourse on competitive victimhood in intergroup conflict literature.
• QUESTION: Where does acknowledging an atrocity while immediately invoking one’s own victimhood sit between apology and deflection?