Why Mass Killing Serbs Isn’t Genocide

Bosnian Rift Republika Srpska View

RT (2024)

Film Review

https://en.rtdoc.tv/films/1459-bosnian-rift-republika-srpskas-view

Ethnic tension in Bosnia dates back to 1908, when the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina. Determined to free Bosnia from Austrian rule, Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princep assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. This event precipitated World War I.

During World War II, Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of Croatia, and German and Croatian Nazis slaughtered more than 100,000 Serbs and sent even more to death camps. The Nazis also formed a special SS division out of fascist Muslims in Bosnia. None of these war criminals faced justice for their crimes because the Nuremberg tribunal didn’t view killing Serbs as genocide.

Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US accelerated its historic campaign to balkanize the independent socialist state of Yugoslavia, as it had the USSR. As in Ukraine, the US continued to fund (through Operation Gladio, USAID and NED) descendants of pro-Nazi leaders in Croatia and Slovenia, who (along with Bosnia and Herzegovina) allied with Germany during World War II. These two countries were the first to secede from Yugoslavia in 1991.

In the 1991 census, the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina was 4,377,000 with 43.7% Muslims, 31.4% Serbs and 17.3% Croats.

On March 1, 1992, Bosnia and Herzegovina had a referendum on independence instigated by the Muslim majority. Serb residents of Bosnia and Herzegovina didn’t want to break up Yugoslavia and boycotted the referendum. The same day a Muslim warlord and organized crime figure and his gang attacked a Serbian wedding and killed the groom’s father. This act is viewed as the start of the Bosnian war.

The 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the Bosnia War divided Bosnia into the Serbian Republika Srpska and Muslim/Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It also established a Bosnia and Herzegovina presidency of three people, one from each ethnic group. However both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska are stilll controlled by an external UN governor who can remove democratically elected officials.

Today the position is held by former Merkel minister Christian Schmidt, whose appointment was opposed by both Russia and China objected to his appointment.  Schmidt has been highly criticized for laying wreathes on the graves of World War II Nazis and his attempt to amalgamate Republika Srpska into Bosnia and Herzegovina. Because he’s under the jurisdiction of the UN Office of High Representatives for the Least Developed Countries, the UN Security Council has no jurisdiction over his actions.

The Serbs lost the information war during 1992-95, portrayed, especially by Western media, as brutes and murderers. Serb women, seniors,and children experienced horrific war crimes at the hands of the Croatian army that were rarely reported in the media and largely went unpunished.

The Serbs are blamed for the so-called Siege of Sarajevo, even though Serbian fighters were mainly responding to a Muslim militia firing on hospitals, schools and other civilian target with multiple rocket launcher systems. Many of the fighters the Serbs faced in Sarajevo were Islamic mercenaries the CIA trained in Afghanistan and Pakistan and infiltrated into Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Although NATO openly sided with the Muslim/Croatian Coalition and was openly bombing Republika Srpska, the western media only reported on Muslim deaths.

At the International Criminal Court, war crimes against Serbs (at least 3,460 civilian death by Bosniak Muslims have been documented) have yet to be litigated. Of the total sentences received, Serbs have received 900 years, Croats 170 years and Muslims 48 years.

Although the Dayton Peace Accord requires the facilitation of the return of refugees to their old homes, Serbs still face open resistance in trying to return to homes they own in Bosnia and Herzegovina. To this day, “Kill the Serbs” graffiti remains common in Croat neighborhoods.