Bosnia’s forgotten Serb victims
Nearly twenty years after these events, neither the full truth is widely known nor has justice been served for many of the Serb victims of the Bosnian Civil War.
BRATUNAC — A memorial service in the village of Kravica, near Bratunac, in eastern Bosnia, today marked the 17th anniversary of the 1993 massacre of 49 Serb villagers.The Bosnian Muslim forces from Srebrenica, led by Naser Orić, attacked the village in January 1993, to kill the villagers and burn their homes.
Most of those murdered were women, children and elderly. Seven were taken prisoner, and died in a in Srebrenica after they were subjected to torture.
More than 1,000 villagers fled, carrying their children and the wounded through the high snow, walking for some five kilometers over mountain passes until they reached the Drina River, and were transported across to Serbia to safety.
From: B92
– News – Crime & War crimes – Bosnian Serb victims remembered
See also: The OTHER Srebrenica massacre
This anniversary whilst remembering a tragic loss of life is also a continuation of the politicizing of suffering to perpetuate the myth that there was some sort of parity of suffering in the war. Initially the claim was hundreds of deaths, this accusation was shown to be grossly exaggerated. The original documentation of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) clearly shows that in fact military victims highly outnumber the civilian ones. The document entitled “Warpath of the Bratunac brigade”, re the Jan 7th battle puts the military victims at 35 killed and 36 wounded; the number of civilian victims of the attack is eleven. Naser Oric’s trial records provides a detailed analysis of the military exchanges around Srebrenica, none of which support the accusations of terrorism unlike the practice that swept away so many lives down the Drina, Una and Bosna rivers and impersonally buried around the surroundings of Srebrenica. Let all mourn for the loss of lives lost to the greed and blindness of violence.
More about “Srebrenica genocide” project:
http://www.nspm.rs/nspm-in-english/a-bosnian-crime-or-disinformation-atlas-q.html
http://www.nspm.rs/nspm-in-english/srebrenica-massacre-is-a-western-myth.html
Bit late to mention- but Alexander Dorin’s research, largely based on the writings of Milivoje Ivanisevic, have long been discredited. His scant use of primary sources is enough to dismiss the writing as propaganda rather than a serious addition to the history.
http://srebrenica-genocide.blogspot.com/2009/11/alexander-dorin-discredited-genocide.html Don’t take this as the only view, use it as a stepping stone to verify the data. It’s all available, if you care to look.
Johnatan,thanx for putting that article on your blog.
More about The real Srebrenica genocide on Australian blog by Peter robert North:
http://real-srebrenica-genocide.blogspot.com/
The truth about Srebrenica: http://de-construct.net/?p=6082
Dobrica Cosic
“We lie to deceive ourselves, to console others; we lie for mercy, we lie to fight fear, to encourage ourselves, to hide our and somebody else’s misery. We lie for love and honesty. We lie because freedom. The lie is the trait of our patriotism and the proof of our innate smartness. We lie creatively, imaginatively, inventively.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-1MXn3NWoA&feature=player_embedded
Dear Fini,
I allowed your comment because it is, ironically, a great example of a lie.
Anti-Serb elements frequently post quote as an example of Serb evil. It is posted to look like Dobrica Cosic said this himself, as though he is espousing these views.
The truth is that this is a quote from a fictional novel. You are quoting a factional character from the novel Deobe (1961).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobrica_%C4%86osi%C4%87#Famous_quote