Important Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy
Calling things by the wrong name adds to the affliction of the world.[1]
– Albert Camus
There is the American official story regarding Srebrenica. In addition to that story, any descriptions, explanations and/or fiction have not only been allowed but encouraged. Anything but the truth!
From sinister plots by competing secret services to the lizard-people’s human sacrifices, heartbreaking fairy tales[2] and epic religious clashes, betrayals by greedy officials and racist mockery of the Balkan/Slavic/Muslim/Orthodox demonic nature(s),[3] all narratives were encouraged to keep the genocide fever burning, and casting the West’s enlightenment upon the scared world in need of salvation from the forces of darkness. Also, to justify the funds needed for NATO and the maintenance of the American global political and financial edifice.
This rule was especially harshly applied to the Serbs, the official evil-doers in the matter, and it was most actively put into practice through the “free” YouTube channels[4] that kept the Serbs busy with “exclusive discoveries” of “what really happened in Srebrenica”—the propaganda method successful with that sliver of the Serbian population smart enough not to accept the incredible official story but not brave enough[5] to tell the truth.
The worst offenders in the sordid matter of the Srebrenica deception have been the so-called Serbian national elite who have, for almost three decades now, based all official Serbian state and nationalistic strategies and tactics on the most preposterous and damaging claims that there was no genocide in Srebrenica but that there happened a terrible war crime and a bloody massacre.
Such political and intellectual/ethical positions by the cowardly and treasonous Serbian “elite” provided them with the most comfortable position in the hitherto America-dominated Balkan setup. They can simultaneously pose as Belgradian patriots, by not accepting the charge of genocide and yet, to satisfy their Western masters, embrace the guilt of war criminals and shame of bloodthirsty maniacal killers of innocents. It offers them the domestically necessary public political status of fighters for the “national interest” and the private comfort of ethical purity and righteousness.
Concurrently, they destroy the spirit and the living force of the Serbian people and succeed in disarming and shaming not only the allies of the Serbs but anyone seeking the truth and justice regarding the Srebrenica events. Today, almost 30 years after the so-called “American Diplomatic Bulldozer’s”[6] greatest foreign policy achievement,[7] also known as “the end of the war” in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH), it is of utmost importance to bring forth as many facts as possible so that the truth may be discovered and presented to the world.
The greatest problem with the almost 80-year-old[8] genocide definition are its very words, which basically allow the “international community” to declare any of its opponents (read: enemies) as guilty of genocide while clearing the in vivo genocidal murderers of any suspicion, even praising them as humanitarian interventionists and/or fighters against terrorism.
Yet, we may operate only with what we have as positive international law, which provides for a clear and unequivocal declaration that genocide did happen in Srebrenica.
The fight must be for designating the true victims and the true perpetrators of that genocide. The “international community” has designated the BH Serbs as the criminals and the BH Muslims as the victims. The evidence proves just the opposite!
It is of utmost importance, for the sake of truth and justice and, in the case of Serbian national interest and individual Serbian psyche, to correct the lies and to make it known, and legally official, that a planned and intended genocide was committed against the Serbian Christian Orthodox population of Srebrenica (and BH), and that there was no genocide against the Muslims there (although, as Americans love to say, in the fog of war “collateral damage” happened on all sides).
Even more important is the fact that no state-planned/executed war crimes or massacres were committed against Muslim civilians in Srebrenica but that the military deaths happened during a clear and deliberate armed thrust of illegal and terrorist BH Muslim forces[9] who wanted to avoid capture by a legitimate and internationally recognized armed forces of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who were ending their violation of Srebrenica’s UN status of a “safe area,”[10] and who were to transfer them to appropriate civilian authorities in order to be tried and punished for the crimes they committed from 1992 to 1995.
There were three major problems with Srebrenica as a “safe area.” The UN and International Humanitarian Law (Rule 36) recognize Demilitarized Zones[11] and provide clear legal language regarding violations of such territories. It seems that a deliberate omission by the “international community” occurred when a “safe area,” and not a “demilitarized zone,” was created in Srebrenica, making it possible for the West to demand that BH Serbs follow all the “demilitarized zone” rules but allowing the BH Muslims within the “safe area” to do as they please.
This created the second problem—the incompetence and incapacity of the UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR), first Canadian and then Dutch, to execute Resolution 819, not only due to their inadequate numbers and equipment but even more by the BH Muslim military clear understanding that the “international community” allows[12] them to conduct genocidal raids against Serbians[13] in Srebrenica and in the villages around it.
The third problem arose from the lack of an agent willing and able to enforce the UN “safe area” rules and the “Agreement about the demilitarization of Srebrenica and Žepa, signed on May 8, 1993, between General Ratko Mladić and General Sefer Halilović in the presence of General Phillipe Morillon.”[14]
By July 1995 it was obvious that the BH Muslim forces in Srebrenica not only systematically violated the rules,[15] killing BH Serbian soldiers and civilians (ritual executions on Serbian and Muslim holy days), terrorizing their own Muslim brethren,[16] trafficking in women[17] and arms, etc., but it became known through Hakija Miholjić,[18] the Muslim political party of the Srebrenica president, that the Muslim BH President, Alija Izetbegović,[19] received a direct recommendation from U.S. President Bill Clinton that 5,000 Muslims need to be massacred so that the U.S. may intervene militarily in BH and bomb the Serbs.
Ibran Mustafić, one of the founders of the BH Muslim political party, testified about the same event in his interview to “Free Bosnia,”[20] emphasizing the fact that the military leaders of Srebrenica were evacuated together with old men and children before the events there. In addition to this, it had been known to the leadership of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (and for that matter to the rest of the world) that “the American Plan” was to ensure “active belligerency” so that the “international community” could achieve “a final settling of accounts with Serbian aggression in the Balkans.”
Two American officials, a former U.S. Department of the State employee and a military analyst, George Kenney, and Michael Dugan, retired Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, disclosed “The Plan” in the 1992 New York Times article “Operation Balkan Storm: Here’s the Plan.” Thus, the third problem—elimination of the “active belligerency” agent from Srebrenica—had to be dealt with by the Serb authorities. Thus, it was necessary to put an end to the genocide against the Serbian civilians around Srebrenica.
Legally, one commits genocide if one has the “intent[ion] to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” by “killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” Article III of the Convention declares the following acts to be punishable: “Genocide; Conspiracy to commit genocide; Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; Attempt to commit genocide; Complicity in genocide.”
The 1992-1995 genocide in Srebrenica was not the only genocide that had happened there. Allowing the so-typically Western liberty of retroactively applying the 1948 definition, there had happened quite a few genocides in/around Srebrenica:
The first was during the Ottoman conquest (in the 15th century) of the Serbian Orthodox Christian Despotate of Serbia, when the Srebrenica silver mines of the former Serbian Empire were secured for the Islamic Ottoman invaders of the Serbian lands.
Another genocide of the Serbs (according to the current definition—Article II a & b), was conducted in 1820, by the Vesier of the High Porte, a Kurdish Islamic fundamentalist, Ali Jelaludin Pasha, who exterminated the former Serbian Orthodox Christian nobility—turned Islamic converts—of Bosnia and Herzegovina (obviously including Srebrenica, where the leading Muslim lord, Hajji Sali-bey, was a great friend of the Prince of Serbia and the highest Orthodox clergy there) because of the fears by the Sultan in Istanbul that they were not adequately loyal to him.
Incredible exterminations, as state policy, of the Serbian Orthodox Christian population, then under Austro-Hungarian occupation, happened from 1914 to 1918, but the demographic-changing exterminations of Serbs happened from 1941 to 1945, when the Independent State of Croatia executed its genocidal state policies on its territory.
From 1991 to 1999 exterminations of the Serbian population of Yugoslavia were conducted in the open, often with foreign media covering them, with both the West’s overt and covert support, and they are continuing to this day, just in forms different from military.
In the end, one must point out one of the most repulsive products of the Srebrenica issue: the “Mothers of Srebrenica” industry—one of the few profit-making activities of the almost non-existent economy of the international community’s protectorate of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The greed and the chutzpah of these women are incomparable in world history. It is not the grief for their lost sons (or other family members) that motivates them. They glorify their deaths and proudly talk publicly about the exterminations of the infidel Serbs by their kin. They have monetized their histories to the extent that they are among the Bosnian 1%. It is hatred that motivates them. The hatred that inspired these mothers is the same one that so recently (September 8, 2024) inspired the Yugoslavia-born (BH) Sanija Ameti,[21] a 32-year-old leader of the Europhile Swiss Liberal Greens, to publish proudly her shots at the icon of the Mother of God and Jesus Christ in Zurich.
Maybe she was animated by the YouTube interview with one of these Srebrenica Mothers, Fadila Mujić.[22] Ms. Mujić proudly testified about mass participation of Muslim women and children in the genocide against Srebrenica Serbs, with a specific joy in recounting[23] the murders and pillage in the Serbian Orthodox Christian village of Kravice on Christmas, January 7, 1993 (minute 18:25 of the video). Maybe Ms. Ameti was one of more than 132,000 viewers of that video, of whom over a thousand left comments praising Fadila’s genocidal sprees.
The 1995 Dayton Agreement declared the end of the war but it can flair up at any moment since that peace is artificial, and a fake state was set up there by the U.S., a state with no sovereignty. On December 21, 1995, the UN International Police Task Force (IPTF) and a UN civilian office in BH were established, commonly known as the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH). It was terminated on December 31, 2002. It invented a new supra-sovereign office—The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (on December 14, 1995)—by the Peace Implementation Council, consisting of about 90 U.S.-selected UN states. Yet, it was not a UN mission but an operation by the dominant Western powers, which needs the UN to provide legality and legitimacy to their own interests in the Balkans.
SFOR (Stabilization Force), a NATO-led multinational peacekeeping force in BH, was established by the UN SC Res. 1088, on December 12, 1996, and lasted until December 2, 2004. It was replaced by the EU EUFOR Althea mission, which is still in BH, as is the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, who still officially possesses his supra-sovereign powers and is the final authority in that supposedly sovereign nation. The West’s hubris has worked, as hubris always does, against itself, so today there is a private person in BH posing as High Representative, but he lacks the official legal authority, which only the UN Security Council can provide. Russia and China declined to do so, thus leaving that “state” leaderless for the foreseeable future, probably soon becoming the cause of the new war in the Balkans.
What once was a beacon to the world, a glorious shining city upon a hill, a proud edifice of noble beams of legal and humane fortitude, the United States and its puppets, have crumbled before our very eyes in just a few years.
Srebrenica might be the clearest exhibit why the tears of its victims have extinguished the once proud flames of the corrupt and suicidal empire. Many a naïve soul still sees The Light, but it is only foxfire emitted from the decaying timber of a ruin infested by the poisonous parasitic fungi feasting on the corpse of the Old World Order.
This is the quote the organization Medecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) chose for the banner at its Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law [https://guide-humanitarian-law.org/content/index/], although they are infamous for refusing to help Serbians and Russians, and for “calling things by the wrong name [thus adding] to the affliction of the world” during official testimonies in order to support the West’s political agendas. See, for example, https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/testimony-presented-msf-during-french-parliamentary-hearing-srebrenica-tragedy ↑
Sarajevo Romeo and Juliet, for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnQ1lTAVjhw ↑
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-18-ca-12374-story.html ↑
A wide range of extraordinary personalities appeared, from the Belgrade-based brother of the global neo-liberal icon Marina Abramovic to the self-proclaimed “former” member of the French military intelligence. ↑
In Bosnia there are laws that ensure punishment for anyone who is a “genocide denier.” In Serbia no such law exists and one is encouraged by the government to deny it, but doing so ensures one’s pariah status (unless one is part of the government or belongs to the West-approved “opposition” parties) as an enemy of democracy, the EU, and Serbia’s joyous future as part of the “Western values world.” ↑
Richard Holbrook, called Le Bulldozer by the French; see https://balkaninsight.com/2021/09/06/the-soldier-in-the-photograph-in-memory-of-richard-holbrooke/ ↑
“Bombs for Peace.” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kosovo/interviews/holbrooke.html ↑
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf ↑
These forces were led by Naser Oric, who is still a hero to the Muslims in the Balkans, and who first was the commander of the Operational Group 8 in Srebrenica, while part of the Second Corps of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Armed Forces. On March 1, 1995, that Operational Group was transformed into the 28th Infantry Division. As such, armed and firing at the Serb army, they attempted to force their way out of Srebrenica in order to escape detention and legal processes due to their war crimes of genocide. The fallen died in combat or were executed by their own comrades when they wanted to surrender. ↑
http://unscr.com/en/resolutions/819 ↑
“A demilitarized zone is generally understood to be an area, agreed upon between the parties to the conflict, which cannot be occupied or used for military purposes by any party to the conflict.” https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule36 ↑
Kofi Annan—the Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations at the time—sent a confidential message (on April 23) to Swedish General Lars-Erik Wahlgren, only a few days after the Resolution 819, about an upcoming visit by the UN Security Council delegation: “Given your public statements that Srebrenica has been fully demilitarized, I see no need for UNPROFOR to participate in house-to-house searches for weapons. You will undoubtedly be made aware by the visiting Security Council delegation of the strong feeling amongst several member states that UNPROFOR should not participate too actively in ‘disarming the victims.” (Emphasis added.) This shows a clear bias in favor of the actual war criminals and against the true victims of genocide. ↑
All Srebrenica residents who were Serbian were exterminated—around 1,500 people. Due to the mutilations of the bodies the exact number of victims could not be established. Around Srebrenica, in over a dozen Serbian villages, 3,262 victims were determined, of whom 880 were soldiers or police, but 2,382 victims were mostly women and children. More than 71% of them were exterminated in 1992, right after the civil war started. ↑
Very suspiciously, the UN page with the Agreement is “not found” any longer! https://peacemaker.un.org/sites/peacemaker.un.org/files/BA_930508_DemilitarizationSrebrenicaZepo.pdf ↑
The day after the Agreement was signed, the Muslims ambushed Serbian forces in two locations, killing six soldiers and wounding many others. The Chronicle of Our Cemetery, p. 94. ↑
Up to 1,000 “politically incorrect” Muslim civilians were killed by the Muslim armed brigade in Srebrenica according to the testimony by Ibran Mustafić, one of the founders of the Muslim nationalist/religious political party of Bosnia and Herzegovina. https://www.in4s.net/ibran-mustafic-sami-smo-ubili-svojih-1-000-muslimana-srebrenici/ ↑
“At the beginning of April 1994, even two Muslim girls, Š.S. and V.D., in later stages of pregnancy escaped. They were both fifteen years old and were victims of rapes by Naser Orić’s soldiers. They gave official statements to the authorities of Internal Affairs in Bratunac, April 4, 1994. After the liberation of Srebrenica, soldiers found a girl from Italy who had been left bound and gagged in an abandoned house. The Italian Embassy in Belgrade was duly notified. Not long after the Italian military attaché visited her, the girl was placed in a psychiatric hospital in Sokolac. The question of how she ended up in Srebrenica and what happened to her there still remains unanswered.” The Srebrenica ID Card; Milivoje Ivanisevic – http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/srebrenica-id.pdf ↑
The meeting took place in the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo, in 1993, https://www.glassrpske.com/cir/novosti/vijesti_dana/hakija-meholjic-srebrenicu-prodali-da-bi-sarajevo-bilo-kanton/38539 ↑
A convicted Islamic extremist who spent many years in prison for advocating genocide against non-Muslims and the establishment of Bosnia as a Sharia state. ↑
Free Bosnia—Slobodna Bosna, Sarajevo, July 14, 1996. ↑
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/criminal-charges-against-sanija-ameti-after-shots-fired-at-jesus-picture/87516891 ↑
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpcX_9uRYvo&t=1127s ↑
“… And then January 7 arrived. We all had at least one male person from a family there, armed. And then, our glorious commander, Naser, may Allah preserve him from all enemies and reward him, said, Let’s go to Kravica.…So we get ready during the night, our soldiers took their positions, and women and children, one endless column of women and children enters Kravica…We enter at that accursed Kravica, all the events are taking place, and that’s when I experienced hell on earth. I saw men killing men, one doesn’t know who is a Chetnik [derogatory Bosnian Muslim name for Serbs, although the Chetnik leader in WWII was declared one of the three greatest heroes of that war by Time magazine and received the U.S. Medal for Merit] and who is a Muslim. One just robs, grabs…I entered one house, I will never forget it, it is January 7, they celebrate Christmas, around me people are being killed, people are dying, there are shots and explosions, it cannot be described to one who was not there on January 7 in Kravica, what kind of panic it is. The fight is about grabbing at least one chicken to take it home, to live from it for three days and then there will be another “nafaka” [beauty, joy, pleasantness].” ↑
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