“If you don’t understand Bosnia, you won’t understand Gaza!”
Understand Bosnia first so you can understand Gaza and what is happening there—so that you won’t be surprised!
The genocide waged by the Serbs against Bosnia’s Muslims resulted in:
300,000 Muslim martyrs.
60,000 women and girls raped.
1.5 million people displaced.
Do we remember this? Have we forgotten? Or do we know nothing about it at all?
Christiane Amanpour from CNN commented on Bosnia’s anniversary:
“It was a medieval war—killing, siege, and starvation of Muslims. Europe refused to intervene, claiming it was a civil war, which was a myth!”
The Holocaust in Bosnia lasted about four years. The Serbs destroyed over 800 mosques—some dating back to the 16th century—and burned Sarajevo’s historic library.
The United Nations intervened by setting up checkpoints at the entrances of Muslim cities like Goražde, Srebrenica, and Žepa, but they remained under siege and fire, offering no real protection.
The Serbs placed thousands of Muslims in concentration camps, torturing and starving them until they became walking skeletons. When a Serbian commander was asked why, he said: “Because they don’t eat pork!”
The Guardian published a full-page map during the Bosnian massacres showing the locations of 17 large rape camps, some inside Serbia itself.
Serbs raped even children—a four-year-old girl… The Guardian published a report about her titled: “The Little Girl Whose Only Crime Was Being Muslim.”
The butcher Ratko Mladić invited the Muslim leader of Žepa for a meeting, offered him a cigarette, laughed with him for a while—then suddenly attacked and slaughtered him. Žepa and its people were brutally massacred.
But the most infamous crime was the Siege of Srebrenica.
The international (Crusader) soldiers partied and danced with the Serbs. Some even bartered with Muslim women, offering food in exchange for their honor.
Exhausted and broken, the Muslims surrendered. The Serbs, feeling secure, stormed Srebrenica, separated the men from the women, gathered 12,000 males—boys and men—and slaughtered them all in cold blood.
Among their atrocities:
Serbian soldiers would carve Orthodox crosses onto the faces of living Muslims (as reported by Newsweek or Time).
Some Muslim prisoners begged to be killed to escape the unbearable pain.
Mothers clung to Serbian soldiers, begging them not to kill their children—only to have their hands severed before their sons were slaughtered before their eyes.
The massacre unfolded… while we watched, listened, ate, played, and carried on with our lives.
After the slaughter of Srebrenica, the butcher Radovan Karadžić entered the city as a “conqueror” and declared:
“Srebrenica was always Serbian, and now it has returned to the embrace of the Serbs.”
We will not forget the Balkans. We will not forget Granada. We will not forget Palestine.
On the 30th anniversary of Europe’s and Serbia’s crime in Bosnia—we will not forget, we will not forgive, and we will never believe the false slogans of tolerance, coexistence, and human rights.
But after 30 years, we still have not learned the lesson.
An important addition:
The Serbs deliberately targeted religious scholars, mosque imams, intellectuals, and businessmen—tying them up, slaughtering them, and dumping their bodies into rivers.
When the Serbs entered a town, they would first demolish its mosque. One Muslim man said:
“If the Serbs destroy a town’s mosque, we know we have no choice but to flee. The mosque means everything to us.”
A British newspaper once described the Bosnian genocide with the chilling phrase:
“A 20th-century war waged in a medieval manner.”
(A message to those who are enamored with Western civilization and its false human rights rhetoric.)
History’s stories are not told to put children to sleep — They are told to wake men up.
— The great writer, Fahmy Howeidy
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Also see: Betrayal of Bosnia
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