“After 14 years of investigating events that took place in Srebrenica in 1995 I can attest there was no genocide over Muslims in that enclave”
The strange thing about this case is that self-proclaimed anti-jihadists who have no trouble recognizing Palestinian “Paliwood” War-Is-Deceit propaganda designed to advance the jihad cause by manufacturing Israeli atrocities, and who even recognize fauxtography generated by the Palestinians, Iran, and others for the same purpose, refuse even to consider the possibility that Muslims could have carried out any deceptive atrocity-manufacturing in the Balkans. Indeed, some even charge that anyone who thinks that Balkan Islamic jihadists carried out any deception at all must be secretly a sympathizer of this genocide-that-never-was.
But that, of course, is a common tactic of both Leftists and jihadists: if you can’t refute ‘em, defame ‘em.
“Srebrenica: More Myth Than Massacre,” by Caleb Posner, August 25:
As the saying goes, history is written by the winners. And when it comes to the former Yugoslav peoples, that can readily be described as everybody but the Serbs. So it is unsurprising then that they have been vilified throughout the West, labeled as war criminals and butchers whose unmitigated xenophobia caused the collapse of a great multi-ethnic state and the bloodiest set of wars Europe had witnessed in a half century. Yet much as Joe Biden and other Serbophobic politicians who called for the repeated bombing of Serbia during the Wars of Yugoslav Secession might believe that summary to be accurate, the facts simply do not lend themselves to such a conclusion. This may be no better demonstrated than by looking at Srebrenica, which has long been Exhibit A in the court of world opinion in the case against the Serbs.
Officially, the story goes that around 8000 innocent Bosnian Muslims were, without any provocation, slaughtered indiscriminately by genocidal Serbs with revanchist aims, who were unmoved by the civilian status of their victims, or that the area they attacked was to be a safe haven managed by the unbiased and above reproach United Nations. As far as making a case for the bloody violence the Western allies would unleash on the Serbs, that did the job rather well, as it played to the sympathies of the emotionally-driven masses. Of course, with respect to capturing the truth, the governmental line is rather inadequate.
So what exactly is the truth? Alexander Dorin, a Swiss researcher who just recently sent his book “Srebrenica – The History of Salon Racism” to print in German (Serb and English translations are planned in the future) said in an interview that, “After 14 years of investigating events that took place in Srebrenica in 1995 I can attest there was no genocide over Muslims in that enclave — the myth about the massacre of Muslims was invented by the late Bosnian Muslim war leader Alija Izetbegović and then-U.S. president Bill Clinton.” Questionable as that allegation may sound to many, it is important to recall that the United States actively armed Izetbegović and his ragtag jihadist army during the war, applied pressure on Tudjman’s secessionist Croat government to cease his involvement in the Herzeg-Bosnia land theft, and sought actively to create a Bosniak state where one had not traditionally existed (for the land falls within the bounds of historic Serbia). Much of this, especially the sale of arms, was documented heavily even by the liberal American media at the time. And indeed, once the other factual inaccuracies become apparent, it seems quite evident that there was not a Srebrenica massacre, but rather a military engagement that, like many US operations, involved some inadvertant civilian casualties, that has been mythologized to give political cover to the warmongers that led us into battle on intelligence information more questionable than any ever utilized by the Bush administration.
For instance, the real number of dead bodies uncovered was closer to 2000. Some 3000 names of alleged victims were alive enough to vote in the 1996 elections. And many other dead bodies were found to be from previous gun battles or from non-violent ends more than a decade before the event in question. Still unaddressed though is guilt. Among the 2000 dead discovered were a very large number of soldiers who, under the leadership of jihadist Naser Orić killed some 3000 Serbian civilians beforehand. That raises perhaps the most important point: Srebrenica was not a purposeful slaughter of innocent civilians, but an effort by Serb forces to save the lives of their countrymen from an enemy army that had already spilled ample blood, and which was cowardly seeking refuge in protected civilian areas that were supposed to be unarmed, and therefore demilitarized….
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This is based on a blog by an unknown student called Posner on a book by a basically unknown Swiss-German writter whom avoids background and credentials on his onw personal website but does put a lot of effort to sell his books.
So where is the uproar? There is none because the attrocity did occur and that is the simple fact.
As I have mentioned before, I was part of the Dutch team that inquired into the events that had happened and if there was any illegal or immoral actions by the Dutch peacekeepers there. Being there makes all the difference, talking to the witnesses, the Dutch soldiers whom were devastated in being helpless – and told to do nothing – some whom have since committed suicide or become alcoholics or institutionalised.
I find the item frankly offensive, that for agenda reasons right-wing BS artists will try and capitialise on the misery of 8,000 deaths and the continuing suffering of their familes by purposefully supporting this crap and the efforts by Serbian Nationalists whom were responsible for both the event and the war to still hide and change basic truth.
In the 1990’s I initially thought that the Serbs were the major aggressor. It was difficult to sift and correlate the historical records but after several years of study I concluded that the Serbs were the minor aggressor and were the major victims of Muslim and Croat aggression. The latter (Muslims and Croats) deployed aggressive agitprop and disinformation targeting the Western media; the Serbs did not. Whole histories of the wars in Yugoslavia have been written in the West based on Muslim and Croat fabrications. The Serbs did not murder 8,000 in Srebrenica; those that beat this drum are either uninformed fools in the West or supporters of the Muslim jihad against the West.
Solkhar is a Muslim lying bastard that trolls pro-Muslim deceptions on anti-jihad blogs.
The Western media was entirely anti-Serb. They still are. This blog tries to rectify some of the falsehoods. Bombing the Christian Serbs to assist the soldiers of Allah to establish themselves right smack in the middle of Europe is Clinton’s (and therefore America’s) greatest crime!
Arius has an agenda and obviously not interested in what is clear documented history, simple. It is rather like denying the Holocaust, to do so is really questionable for its motives.
For those that do not know the history, there was a strong Serbian Nationalist power base, even within the former Yugoslavia and that resulted in the careful domination by Serbs of the leadership, numbers and thus control of the Yugoslav Military. After the fall of communism, nationalism spread in all areas and Croats decided to separate, when this started the strong Serb nationalists decided to make a move for the concept of the Greater Serbia which included Bosnia within it. When the Bosnians (with a Muslim majority) chose also independance, the Bosnian Serbs declared their part of that Greater Serbia and bingo the conflict started.
War crimes investigation has been done and continued, the results and evidence is clear and undefensible and yet still the process of law continues. Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims all have been charged and those found and caught put to the court, either found guilty or not, from all three groups. Having said that, it is also clear that the largest majority of aggression, oppression and crimes against humanity were predominantly Serbian – that just happens to be a fact, like Srebrenica. Those that appose this view have connections to Serb Nationalism that continues to deny it as they are still a part of the power-block in that area and cannot afford to capitulate and face the truth.
When I visited Srebrenica, the evidence was there and clear and I still remember the difficult process of information collection – difficult because of the sadness and reality of the evidence and the smell of the aftermath still visible. In my visit to Serb parts of the country to gain information, there was no such smell but a collective organisation of information – let us just say – way to nicely prepared with pre-prepared affidavits that the leadership and participants were “not there”, even before the question was asked.
Arius is obviously a part of that agenda or a victim of nationalist propoganda.