SERBS DELUDE THEMSELVES WITH GENOCIDE DENIAL AND IMAGINARY HISTORY
Only one out of three Serbs supports the Parliament of Serbia's Srebrenica Declaration, the daily Press reported Monday. Quoting a survey by the "Politika" agency, it said that 32.7 per cent of the population in Serbia supports the Declaration on Srebrenica, while 37.5 opposes it. Other 30 per cent were undecided. Note that the "population in Serbia" does not include only Serbs, but also other ethnic groups - Bosniaks, Albanians, Croats, Hungarians, etc. Therefore, the percentage of Serbs who oppose the Srebrenica Declaration is probably more than 90%.
In February 2010, we reported that an overwhelming majority of Serbs deny the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide. Simply put, Serbia is a sick society and majority of Serbs are infested with an extremely radical type of ultra-nationalism. As a result, Serbs have deliberately chosen to believe in a lie that genocide in Srebrenica did not take place. Nothing new considering that lying and inventing history is, indeed, an overall characteristic of Serbian people.
In February 2010, we reported that an overwhelming majority of Serbs deny the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide. Simply put, Serbia is a sick society and majority of Serbs are infested with an extremely radical type of ultra-nationalism. As a result, Serbs have deliberately chosen to believe in a lie that genocide in Srebrenica did not take place. Nothing new considering that lying and inventing history is, indeed, an overall characteristic of Serbian people.
Take for example Serbian lies, manipulations, half-truths and imaginary history with respect to the Jasenovac concentration camp. Even today, more than 60 years after Jasenovac, Srebrenica Genocide deniers continue to spread lies about '700,000' Serbs victims. The politics of Jasenovac farce continue to inflate 26,170 Serb victims into 700,000 martyrs for a Great Serbian propaganda. How about teaching young Serbs that their people committed a horrendous genocide against the Bosnian Muslim population in World War II? No, young generations of Chetniks supposedly don't need to learn about that. Then, how about teaching young Serbs that Serbian people willingly and deliberately collaborated with Nazis in the World War II? Apparently, young generations of Serbian Orthodox clero-fascists (e.g. "OBRAZ") would rather believe in a lie that Serbian people were somehow 'heroic' and 'just' throughout their history. Or, they would rather believe in a lie that Naser Oric committed massacres against the Bosnian Serb 'civilians' around Srebrenica - an allegation proven to be false.
Despite its shortcomings, the Declaration on Srebrenica condemned the Srebrenica killings, accepted that genocide occurred in Srebrenica, and apologized to the victims' relatives because Serbia did not do enough to stop them. Almost fifteen years after the genocide, Serbian people still refuse to accept the apology their Parliament narrowly passed. It's a shame, that's all we can say. Serbia is a truly sick society.
posted by Srebrenica Genocide at 4:44 PM
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"This was his brother they were talking about: a good soldier, always first in action, even though he was usually the youngest; always clean; no raping or looting; not corrupt; a great Serb, fighting for a Serb country.
The quote above comes from Lynne Jones' Then They Started Shooting. It is a story relayed to Jones by one of her Serbian informants about the reaction of the Serb community to the death of his brother. It shows that in the early 1990s, the Serbs knew and recognized that the VRS was a sub-par and subhuman military force and were compelled to recognize that this particular soldier (Dusan's brother) possessed the basic decency not to rape anyone. 15 years later, the Serbs seemed to have forgotten this and regressed back to some fantasy land. What is worse is that rather embrace other counter-narratives that make the Serbian people look alright and dare I say even good, they opt for straight-up bullshit that only a complete fucking moron could love.
Seriously, if any Serbs of adult age in the 1990s are reading this, can you explain why, if the Serbian wars in Croatia and Bosnia were so noble, did so many of you actively fight against the war through public protest, immigration abroad, and draft resistance? If Bosnian forces under Naser Oric were butchering Serb civilians like it is claimed now, why didn't you react? Why didn't you enlist? Why didn't you protest Milosevic's closing of the border? His refusal to deploy the Yugoslav army in defense of Krajina? Are you lazy? Crazy? Too busy watching the TV? Perhaps you were cowards?
I think you knew back then that Milosevic's adventures were bullshit and resisted them by the most effective means available to you, your refusal to participate. I also think you need to remember and relearn what you knew back then in 1992 and 1995.
Daniel,
The results of this poll are of course discouraging, but the math and simple logic don't support your conclusion that "therefore, the percentage of Serbs who oppose the Srebrenica Declaration is probably more than 90%."
This poll was conducted by Agencija Politikum (not Politika). I don't know their track record, but let's assume that the survey results are reliable - even though there is no indication in the news reports of the number of respondents in the survey sample or of the margin of error.
Let's further assume, for the sake of argument, that every one of those respondents who said that they opposed the parliamentary resolution on Srebrenica was an ethnic Serb.
According to the latest figures, the population of Serbia is now 89.2 percent Serb while 10.8 percent are non-Serbs. (That's just Serbia proper - it doesn't include Kosovo, where neither Serbian census takers nor Serbian polling agencies have been active for more than a decade.)
Given those figures, if every one among the 37.5 percent of respondents in the survey who said they were opposed to the Srebrenica resolution were Serbs, that would mean just 45 percent of all Serbs living in Serbia - i.e. less than half - were opposed to the resolution.
In fact, the actual figure of Serbs who opposed the resolution for nationalistic reasons may be a bit lower than that -- if one considers the ethnic Serb supporters of those liberal parties (LDP, SVM), that voted against the Srebrenica resolution because they thought it was not strong enough and should have included the word "genocide" ... and if one also takes into account those non-Serbs who may not have supported the resolution for various reasons.
I agree that 45 percent is not good, but it's not an overwhelming majority, nor is it evidence that Serbs as a whole are beyond convincing on this issue. I don't have the figures at hand, but as I recall the poll numbers in Serbia were considerably worse just a few years ago.
Oops -- a typo. The population of Serbia is 82.9 percent Serb (not 89.2); non-Serbs account for 17.1 percent of the population. Sorry about the typo. It's after midnight here...
However the math still holds -- if we assume that the 37.5 percent of the poll respondents who expressed opposition to the Srebrenica resolution were all ethnic Serbs, then 37.5/82.9 = 45 percent of Serbs said they oppose the resolution.
Andras, thank you for correcting me. I said "probably." Whatever they do, we can't trust them. That's the bottom line. Take a look at all these despicable lies they have been spreading about the Jasenovac concentration camp. They deliberately inflated the figure of 26,170 Serb victims into 700,000.
Srebrenica genocide denier - late Dr. Milan Bulajic - compiled the list of 45,000 - 52,000 suspicious names of Serb 'victims', many of them Chetniks that died on Kozara and surrounding region.
We have DNA evidence to prove the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide. They have nothing to prove their numbers.
And who cares about Jasenovac in regards to the Bosnian war? The victims of jasenovac died at the hands of Nazis and Croats 70 years ago...so why is Jasenovac brought up us an excuse or answer when the war crimes commited by serbs on Bosniaks are disccused in the 1990s?
They can't even come up with ONE mass grave when they claim thousands of serbs died around srebrenica...yet they deny the Bosniak deaths even though there are HUNDREDS of these mass graves, and as Dan pointed out, the victims have been identified through DNA by an international effort (outside source).
For the sake of argument, let's let them forget everything that happened on "foreign" soil. If they're genuinely anxious about dealing with all crimes, how about a proper investigation of what was done to their own citizens at Strpci and Sjeverin?
Yes, and now Dodik personally denies the Srebrenica Genocide. That means he is ready to do mor eofthe same. Right now he is Karadzic by other means, but he can turn into a proper Karadzic easily.
Abdulmajid
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