Portrait of Serbian President in Srebrenica sparks Islamist protests
In Bosnia, the municipality of Srebrenica has reinstalled a billboard featuring Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic as a sign of gratitude for initiating significant financial assistance to the small town. The previous poster was destroyed by unknown persons, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
A board with the image of Aleksandar Vučić was placed at the entrance to Srebrenica, in the suburban village of Učina Bašča, on the initiative of the local municipality.
“We put the poster in front of the district administration because we have to thank President Vučić, who has made a great contribution to improving the lives of the people of Srebrenica with multi-million donations,” commented the mayor of Srebrenica, Serbian Mladen Grujicic. “And these donations, of course, will not stop for Srebrenica. With our small gesture we wanted to express our gratitude to President Vučić. However, someone broke it (board – ed.) and showed that he does not want a common (for all nationalities inhabiting the town - ed.) life and the outstretched hand of Serbia.”
The previous similar board was destroyed a few days ago, and the new one installed in its place differs from the previous one only in the inscription in Latin, while the previous one was in Cyrillic - the official alphabet of the Republic of Serbian Bosnia and Herzegovina, which includes Srebrenica.
“I regret that this is becoming the subject of political unrest,” the city’s former mayor, Bosniak Camil Durakovic, commented on the incident. – If the municipality and local government want to thank, there are different ways to do it. The same (establishing a board – ed.) literally nothing more than inciting interethnic hatred.”
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.
Propaganda video by Muslim militants Naser Oric depicting the destruction of the Serbian village of Kravica near Srebrenica on Christmas Day 1993
Video in memory of Serbian children killed by Muslim militants in the vicinity of Srebrenica and Bratunac.
The Serbian village of Kravica after a raid by Muslim militants Naser Oric.
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.
Nasser Oric's militants (on horseback) pose against the backdrop of the Orthodox church they burned
After which 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 the President of 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 Serbs, as well as completely living people who subsequently “came to life” during elections and during emigration abroad.
The Potocari memorial complex, created at the site of the “genocide,” regularly makes political statements, exacerbating already complex interethnic relations.
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