Israeli historian: “There was no genocide in Srebrenica”
The chairman of the Independent International Commission to Study the Suffering of All Nations in the Srebrenica Region from 1992 to 1995, Gideon Greif, presented a 1200-page report on which the world's leading experts worked.
This was reported by RTRS, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The contributions to this exceptional document were made by ten of the highest experts from different countries, including myself,” said Greif. “These are well-known experts in their scientific fields, so I think that a significant contribution has been made to truth and science, which is extremely important. When I presented the report to the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska Radovan Viskovic and the Serbian member of the BiH Presidency Milorad Dodik, it seemed to me that history rang a bell, without exaggeration.”
According to the scientist, the commission came to two main conclusions - one concerns the definition of genocide, and the other concerns the number of victims.
“I am a Jew, and I know what genocide is. I belong to an ancient people who were subjected to genocide, the greatest genocide in human history. My people don't need to explain to me what genocide is. And we proved it, this is not just our opinion, we proved it.
What happened in Srebrenica was not genocide, it cannot be called genocide, if someone uses this term, it should be erased from history. And this is important because the charges of genocide are very serious,” Greif said.
At the same time, the scientist does not dispute that a crime was committed in Srebrenica, but it cannot in any way be called genocide.
“I think this is very important. It’s not just a stamp, a name, it’s the essence of what happened,” noted the Chairman of the Independent Commission.
Gideon Greif stressed that the Serbs never had a plan to destroy the Bosniaks or Croats - neither in Srebrenica nor anywhere else.
“Let me repeat, genocide is a crime that means complete destruction, the erasure of a certain group of people from the face of the earth because of a different religion, nationality, mentality or simply because you do not like this group,” the Israeli scientist noted.
The Commission's research covered not only the events in Srebrenica in July 1995, when the town was captured by Republika Srpska troops, but also events over a longer period, from 1992 to 1995. Greif noted that modern historiography of Srebrenica deliberately forgets an extremely important fact, namely the crimes against the Serbian people.
“Military actions and attacks on many Serbian villages began in 1992, perhaps even earlier, many Serbian civilians were subjected to Muslim aggression. Instead of blaming the Serbian side for aggression, the other side should be blamed. But over time, everything turned upside down, and the aggressor became the victim, and the victim became the aggressor,” concluded the chairman of the Independent Commission.
The Bosnian mining town of Srebrenica has been the subject of political speculation in recent decades. During the war of the 90s, it and neighboring Zepa were turned into Islamist enclaves, from which gangs under the command of the bloody war criminal Naser Oric, acquitted by The Hague, attacked the surrounding Serbian villages, mainly on Orthodox holidays, slaughtering their population and burning houses and churches.
The UN peacekeepers stationed on the border of the enclaves did nothing to prevent this. After another similar provocation in 1995, the command of the Republika Srpska Army decided to eliminate bandit enclaves in its rear.
Bosnian Serb troops under the command of General Ratko Mladic managed to occupy Srebrenica and Zepa, from where all women and children were purposefully evacuated.
After which the Serbs shot more than a hundred captured Islamist militants, and there was no order from the command to destroy them, but the commanders and soldiers, many of whom had relatives massacred by the Bosniak separatists, showed arbitrariness in this matter.
Based on what happened, Western technologists created the mythical “genocide in Srebrenica,” which became the reason for NATO aircraft to intervene in the conflict and attack the positions of the Bosnian Serbs from the air.
After this blow, the initiative passed to the Bosniak and Croat sides, who, as a result of a joint blitzkrieg, managed to clear most of the unrecognized Republic of Serbian Krajina in Croatia, liquidate the Serb-allied Muslim-Yugoslav Republic of Western Bosnia and occupy areas previously controlled by the Bosnian Serbs, where local Serb clearings took place population.
Then the United States brought the parties to the conflict to the negotiating table, forcing them to sign the Dayton Agreement, which essentially turned BiH into a Western protectorate. The mythical “genocide” also allowed the West to deal with the leadership of the Bosnian Serbs, in particular, General Ratko Mladic and President of the Republika Srpska Radovan Karadzic were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Hague Tribunal.
According to the false and unsupported idea of “genocide in Srebrenica,” the VRS units killed eight thousand “men and boys” in the town. At the same time, the number of “victims” included not only the executed prisoners, but also the remains of all those who died in this territory during several years of bloody conflict, including the Serbs, as well as completely living people who subsequently "came to life" during elections and when emigrating abroad.
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