Thread by @JasminMuj

As part of their ongoing revisionist campaign re: the Bosnian War & Genocide, the secessionist regime in BiH's RS entity recently convened two "international commissions" to rewrite the established facts of the Srebrenica Genocide and the Siege of Sarajevo. 🧵

These two specific events were chosen bc they are the most internationally well known features of the Bosnian War & Genocide & the Dodik regime wants to recast their understanding in the global discourse to justify its ongoing political ambitions; namely, secession from BiH.

Their report on the Siege of Sarajevo, which specifically deals with the treatment of ethnic Serbs by BiH govt forces during the siege, was released today. It is rife w/ half-truths, spin, selective sourcing, fabrications, and conspiracism. No surprise.

But the real story is in the authors which the Dodik regime selected to "author" this report. It speaks to the global network of cooks, revisionists, and extremists which have become the vanguard of contemporary Bosnian Genocide denial efforts.

To be clear: BiH govt forces did commit atrocities vs. ethnic Serbs in/around Sarajevo, most infamously the Kazani Pit Killings. But there was never a systematic attempt by the BiH govt to target Serbs (or Croats), as proven at the ICTY & est in the relevant academic literature.

But these reports represent a specific form of genocide denial: their whole purpose is to establish a degree of false equivalence btw the actual, systematic, genocidal intents of the RS/VRS regime & those who resisted its aggression. opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-…

So, on to the roster: first up is Raphael Israeli. Below is an account of some of his previous work, considered so extremist in its depiction of Palestinians that it was widely rebuked in Israeli society, and by anti-hate organizations in the U.S. like the ADL.

Viktor Bezruchenko, a (former?) Russian officer, does not have much of a public profile, but he has been part of RS & Serbian govt attempts to fabricate the history of the Bosnian Genocide for some time.

Darko Tanaskovic, a Belgrade professor and one of the chief ideologues of anti-Muslim hysteria in Serbia for much of the last few decades. He was one of the signatories of this defense of Milosevic apologist and genocide denier Peter Handke. politika.rs/sr/clanak/4432…

Laurence French is a little known NH-based academic who appears to have only a passing knowledge of BiH or the region and misspelled "Republic of Srpksa" [sic] in his own LinkedIn profile.

Then we have the Italian reporter Giuseppe Zaccaria, who I understand passed away last year, but spent much of the 90s as the go-to mouthpiece of the Milosevic regime and its various proxies.

And finally, there's the French national Patrick Barriot, a former defense witness for Slobodan Milosevic, who has spent years spinning yarns about the decency of Ratko Mladic and the "real" number of victims of the genocide in Srebrenica.

So, this is not only a collection of historical revisionists, it's a collection of illiterates and radicals who have been marginalized within their own societies, but are being rolled out by a pariah regime to re-frame the historical facts of the Bosnian War. Now you know. /x