by Stephen Karganovic of the Srebrenica Historical Project
The Srebrenica Lobby in Serbia has launched a stealth campaign to pressure the Serbian Parliament to adopt a resolution about the “Srebrenica genocide” that allegedly took place in July 1995. The proposed resolution is scheduled to be presented to parliament for a vote in a few days, following a “fast track” procedure designed to be completed in time for this year’s Srebrenica anniversary ceremony on July 11. Obviously, the timing was designed to ensure that maximum emotional pressure is exerted on parliamentary deputies, while giving them a minimum of time to conduct an informed public debate on the issues underlying the Srebrenica controversy.
This year’s resolution proposal is a replay of a similar attempt made in the Serbian parliament 2010, which resulted in only a partial gain for the Lobby. They were frustrated, however, in attaining their central objective of making Serbian parliament declare that what happened in Srebrenica was genocide for which Serbia was bound to suffer grave political, economic, and moral consequences. As a result of vociferous public protests and the ensuing debate, once the terms of the proposed resolution in 2010 became widely known, parliament was compelled to strike the word “genocide” from the text and to express itself in more guarded terms concerning that core but very controversial issue. The result did not serve the desired goal of tainting Serbia and the Serbian people with the stigma of genocide, which was the resolution’s political purpose to begin with. The Srebrenica Lobby has apparently reached the conclusion that now the time is ripe to try again. Lessons were learned from the 2010 experience and the plan for the next couple of days in Belgrade is to not give Srebrenica resolution opponents sufficient time to organize or parliamentary deputies who are so inclined a reasonable opportunity to study the matter more closely.
The Srebrenica resolution that is currently being introduced and rammed through the Serbian parliament follows closely the pattern set by Great Britain’s Srebrenica resolution introduced in the UN Security Council last year that was vetoed by Russia. Both put heavy stress on the allegation that what occurred in Srebrenica was genocide and attribute that crime to Serbia and its people.
As we have stressed continuously over the years, Srebrenica genocide has nothing to do with the facts of what actually happened or sympathy for the innocent victims who were executed. It is a thoroughly politicized affair which serves an agenda having nothing in common with the interests of Bosnian Muslims and having everything to do with inciting enmity between the Muslim and Orthodox inhabitants of the Balkans. The objective is to push them into mutually debilitating strife, with the Western-NATO alliance dominating over both in the strategically important Balkans and plundering their resources in the process, while cynically playing one side off against the other. The proposed resolution in the Serbian parliament, classifying Srebrenica as genocide and implying that Serbia (and by extension the Serbian people) played a role in that false flag operation, is part and parcel of this insidious agenda.
The public learned about the proposed resolution only on Wednesday June 29. The matter was deliberately kept under wraps by pro-Western and pro-NATO deputies who are sponsoring it until the last possible moment in order to ensure its stealth passage in parliament. Resolution proponents in Serbia are not interested in a transparent public debate about what really happened in Srebrenica and even less what Serbia allegedly had to do with it. They disregard completely the fact that deputies in parliament are paid their salaries in order to make informed decisions on behalf of their constituents, and should not allow themselves to be manipulated by political pressure.
The corrupt procedure used by the Srebrenica Lobby to push through its resolution raises several important questions. Is it the business of the Serbian parliament to pass politically inspired resolutions about Srebrenica, thus taking the onus for this crime on behalf of the Serbian people as a whole? Is it correct and in line with provable facts to call what happened in Srebrenica a genocide? Is it proper to ambush a country’s parliament on an important issue such as this without allowing sufficient time for a full and unfettered public debate?
In Serbia, exactly the same as everywhere else, the aggressive Srebrenica Lobby is unconcerned with these important questions and procedural niceties. It accomplishes its malevolent mission by politicizing Srebrenica and frivolously imputing to Serbia and the Serbian people responsibility for a ghastly crime that they did not commit.
Maybe it is time to start calling out the mass killing of Iraqis, Libyans and Syrians by the US/UK/NATO what it really is – genocide. One of the prime instigators has described the deaths of 500,000 Iraqis as ‘a price worth paying’.
Too true, way past time.
Ugh… Its like my people’s politicians just want to fall on their swords against their own people’s interests.
The Serbian Parliament should read the book by Robert Baer, an ex- CIA agent. He was on CNN often ironically. He said that the CIA and its NGOs stirred up the ethnic conflicts in Yugoslavia. He said he knew a month? before about the Srebrenica massacre. Why? The CIA planned it, for the US to go in Bosnia. Does anybody in Europe read any books recently published? Robert Baer said he is very sorry what the CIA did to Yugoslavia. The CIA stirred up the ethnics with its NGOs. Serbia read this book.
So who are the traitors that would “even consider” voting for that. And why have they not been “convinced” how bad it would be if they “did” vote for that. Are their names freely available throughout Serbia. And who would ever vote for them if they made that vote. Is Serbia today divided with a majority 5th column population. I hadn’t heard of that. But maybe it is so. If the majority has now “drank the koolaid” its worthless to waste time on them.
Agree, and i dont know why such things happen in a democracy.
Interesting article, but who are those individuals in “Srebrenica Lobby” ?? People and Authorities need to know names, addresses photographs, car number plates,bank account numbers etc..Those people are treasonous individuals . Serbian secret service and special section of Serbian police has to be notified ASAP.
Your TruthTeller
Serbian civilian Security agency BIA (Bezbednosno Informativna Agencija) is mainly used for political fight against political opponents – It cooperates with FBI (CIA) in fights against people and there opinions regarding Donbas (Novorusia) and similar – It will not be different with this case – Regarding those people who promote those “demoNcratic” values – they have protection from that same agency – What to say …
They are people like those who staff The Centre For Cultural Decontamination ( CZKD ).
http://www.czkd.org/en/
“The CZKD is an independent non-profit cultural institution”
Their friends list shows just how independent they are:
http://www.czkd.org/en/prijatelji/
Soro’s Open Society is there of course.
It is really amazing how much effort Jewish zionists have put into their attack on Yugoslavia, especially on the Serbs. I guess those Jewish zionists must really hate how the Serb partisans caused the nazi subhumaniods grief during WW2 while their heros allied themselves to that nazi freakshow. Both stern and shamir are well known for their WW2 nazi sympathies, but even non-Jewish pro-inazi lowlife almost always get the zionazi seal of approval.
This has nothing to do with either Jews or Zionists.
The Yugoslav resistance movement (1941-1945), led by J.B.Tito, was the largest resistance movement in Europe against all kind of fascists. It was much larger than Greek, French, Polish, Italian and even Jewish- Belorussian partizans. It started rather small but then started to grow rather rapidly first after collapse of Italy in autumn of 1943 and then the collapse of Hungary in spring of 1944 and then shortly after that collapse of Bulgaria.
The Yugoslav Resistance Movement (YRM) consisted mainly of Serbs. To be more precise, Serbs from Bosnia, Lika, Kordun, and Banija, especially in the beginning years. The second ethnic group, most prominently represented in YRM, were Jews, some Marxist, some Zionist, and some ideologically indifferent.
About 4600 Jews are known to have fought, about 1400 died. They fought just as bravely and tenaciously as Serbs, as proven by the number of highest medals for bravery issued. Many more would have joined (YRM), except for the fact that most of Yugoslav Jews were either murdered or imprisoned by the assorted fascists very early in the war. Of about 75000 Jews that lived in Yugoslavia before the WWII, only 15000 survived, about 20%.
The above are hard facts. Not perhaps well known, but certainly well documented in various historical archives in Serbia, RF and Israel’s museum Lohamei Ha Getaot.
Regards, Spiral
Of course the Yugoslav resistance was large and successful. It doesn’t surprise me that it included Jews and Zionists. But why? Why did it start to grow so rapidly in 1943?
Because in 1943, Churchill threw his weight behind Tito.
Before 1943 there were two successful anti-fascist movements: the Chetniks and the Partisans. Charles de Gaulle preferred Chetnik leader Mihailovic. In 1943, however, Churchill handpicked Tito. This marked the decline of the Chetniks (Tito later executed Mihailovic) and many Serbs then joined the Partisans.
Tito split with Stalin in 1948, and turned a traditionally pro-Russian country (Serbia) into a “non-aligned” one.
In February 1943 the Germans and their allies were finally defeated at Stalingrad and the tide of the war turned against Germany.
It was only then that Croatians began to join Tito’s Partisans in any significant number.
Prior to that at least 75% of the Partisans in Croatia and Bosnia were Serb.
However Draza Mihailovic’s Chetniks were the first organised armed resistance to the German occupiers and their Croat, Bosnian Muslim and Albanian allies.
From my understanding it wasn’t genocide, but a military disaster. The
Red Cross had the UN kick the
Bosnians out of their camp, as the
Bosnians were using it as a massive human shield. The
Serbs were just waiting for them once the great retreat started and the ensuing chase turned into a slaughter.
Not true..
„Stradanje Srba Srebreničkog kraja u 20. veku“
6.7.2016. | Vreme: 11:00 | Terazije 3, I sprat
U kontekstu pažnje javnosti, koja se svakog jula usmerava isključivo na događaje u Srebrenici jula 1995. godine, Muzej žrtava genocida želi da javnosti ponudi mnogo širi kontekst za razmatranje i to:
Prikaz srpskog stradanja u Drugom svetskom ratu, to jest u godinama Nezavisne Države Hrvatske 1941-1945. Prikaz srpskog stradanja u građanskom ratu u Bosni i Hercegovini 1992-1995. godine, i poseban osvrt na političku instrumentalizaciju nedovoljno istraženih činjenica o ratnom zločinu koji se dogodio u julu 1995. godine a kojoj je, između ostalog, cilj prećutkivanje nespornog stradanja pripadnika druge, u ovom slučaju, srpske strane. Osnovni zadaci Muzeja žrtava genocida su: prikupljanje, obrada, čuvanje i publikovanje podataka o pojedinačnim i grupnim žrtvama zločina (prinudno raseljavanje, uzimanje talaca, odvođenje u logor, prinudni rad, uništavanje i pljačka imovine, kulturno-istorijskih spomenika i dobara, upotreba nedozvoljenih sredstava u borbi); prikupljanje, obrada i čuvanje građe o izvršiocima zločina, spasiocima žrtava; utvrđivanje i obeležavanje mesta stradanja žrtava; obezbeđivanje korišćenja kulturno-istorijske građe i saznanja u kulturne, obrazovne, vaspitne i informativne svrhe; saradnja sa srodnim institucijama u zemlji i inostranstvu; organizacija stručnih i naučnih skupova posvećenih sećanju na zločine.
Politizacija i upotreba tragedije jedne strane u građanskom ratu, u ovom slučaju muslimanske, navodi nas na potrebu kompleksnijeg sagledavanja određenih istorijskih procesa dugog trajanja. U tom kontekstu moguće je posmatrati i pojedine dosadašnje aktivnosti Muzeja kao i sadržaj ovog skupa. Tako je Muzej, pored ostalog, priredio dva zbornika radova o stradanju srpskog naroda Srebreničkog kraja, koje smo predstavili u Srebrenici. Želimo da to učinimo i u Beogradu, u sklopu konferencije koja će javnosti pružiti širi kontekst opšte srebreničke tragedije. Na konferenciji će učestvovati devet autora.
Konferencija
Muzeja žrtava genocida
Aleksandar Pavić, kao moderator skupa i autor knjige „Zabranjena istina o Srebrenici“ daće kratak pregled do sada utvrđenih činjenica vezanih za događaje u i oko Srebrenice u julu 1995. godine
Dr Nenad Antonijević, viši kustos Muzeja žrtava genocida, predstaviće dva zbornika radova: Stradanje Srba Srebreničkog kraja u 20. vijeku koji je predstavljen 26. juna 2014. u Srebrenici i Zločini Crne legije 1942-43. godine u Istočnoj Bosni koji je predstavljen 16. juna 2016. godine takođe u Srebrenici
Prof.dr Veljko Đurić Mišina, vršilac dužnosti direktora Muzeja žrtava genocida, govoriće o Knjizi mrtvih Srba – Srebrenica 1992–1995
Miloš Milojević, predstaviće radove nedavno preminulog pukovnika Ratka Škrbića, koji se u svojim knjigama kritički bavio „igrom brojki“ u vezi Srebrenice
Nemanja Dević, će govoriti o arhivskoj građi Komesarijata za izbeglice Vlade generala Milana Nedića koja se odnosi na Srebrenički kraj
Vinko Pandurević, general u penziji će, kao neposredni učesnik, govoriti o ratnim dešavanjima na području Srebrenice u periodu 1992-1995. godine
Boško Antić, kontraadmiral u penziji govoriće o istorijskom kontekstu operacije oslobađanja Srebrenice juna 1995. godine
Dr Goran Đorđević, advokat, govoriće o pravnim posledicama događaja u Srebrenici u leto 1995. i problemima tumačenja pojma genocida
Radomir Pavlović, bivši predsednik Skupštine opštine Srebrenica, govoriće o sadašnjim prilikama u Srebrenici