Systematic intoxication was a deliberate technique to enable atrocities

Evidence

Serb army officers used alcohol to break down the normal inhibitions of the young men in their commands. Serb soldiers were kept drunk night after night, weeks at a time; military convoys were accompanied by truckloads of plum brandy (s jivovica). In Sarajevo, there was an evening s jivovica hour during which Serb soldiers would get drunk and broadcast over loudspeakers, in grisly detail, what they were going to do to the Bosnian civilians when they got hold of them. Survivors of mass killings reported that once soldiers began drinking, the atrocities followed. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 212

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Operation Car Wash selectively targeted one party’s abuses — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 610