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Oct 27, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Recently, I’ve had several academics, researchers & experts trying to convince me that the war against Bosnia & the situation today is “complicated”.
Bosniak Muslims were hunted & slaughtered like animals.
I’m not sure which bit is complicated?
Serbian soldiers force Ramo Osmanovic to call for his son Nermin. Both were executed. The international community stood by and watched, the UN enabled it.
The international community needs to start listening to Bosnians rather than imposing solutions that cause more suffering.
Oct 24, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“You are now under the protection of the UN forces”.
French General Philippe Morillon in Srebrenica, 1993.
2 years later - more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslims were slaughtered in just a couple of days.
Europe still hasn’t learned anything from its past.
Saving lives? I didn’t think anyone really believed this anymore. The UN watched as thousands of Bosniaks were slaughtered, women and girls raped. Watched, discussed, passed resolutions and prevented Bosnia from defending itself but you know that better thank anyone.
Today marks 27 years since 38 Bosniak (Muslim) civilians, including small children (aged 2, 3 and 9), elderly and disabled people, who were massacred by units of the Croatian Defence Council, the Bosnian Croat wartime force, in October 1993. balkaninsight.com/2020/10/23/bos…
On October 23, 1993, members of Apostoli & Maturice units of the Croatian Defence Council killed 38 people, burning some of them alive, & torched their homes. Among those killed by the Bosnian Croat fighters were children aged two, three & nine, & elderly & disabled people.
Oct 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"Archbishop Serafeim invited the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to visit Athens in 1993. At a mass rally attended by prominent politicians, the indicted war criminal proclaimed: 'We have only God and the Greeks on our side.”
#GoldenDawn theguardian.com/world/2003/jan…
Around 100 soldiers are believed to have joined the Greek Volunteer Guard, formed at Mladic's request. The unit, which fought alongside Russians and Ukrainians, was led by Serb officers and had its own insignia - the double-headed eagle of Byzantium.
Oct 22, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Today marks 28 years since 16 Bosniak (Muslim) men and one woman were seized by paramilitaries from the Bosnian Serb ‘Avengers’ unit and killed at a hotel in Visegrad during the war in 1992.
balkaninsight.com/2020/10/22/bos…
The victims were travelling by bus from Sjeverin in Serbia, were abducted & taken to the Vilina Vlas hotel in Visegrad, where they were abused & killed by members of a Bosnian Serb paramilitary unit called the Avengers. Only one victim’s body has been found so far.
May 9, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Amer Dulic spent 233 days in 4 Bosnian-Croat concentration camps. In 1993, he was only 17 years old when he & his cousins were taken from their homes to Kostana Bolnica (Bone Hospital). They were locked in a small room in the basement with about 20 other kids.
They heard screams & crying. It was clear that people were being beaten & tortured. First night there, he was forced to bury 2 cousins. For the first time in his life, he saw beaten and bloodied men, and listened to their final breaths.
