Tag Archives: Bosniaks

Some Bosnian Muslims Converting to Christianity?

Guest Post by Srebrenica Genocide Blog After a brutal persecution, ethnic cleansing, and genocide, it has recently been reported that a small number of Bosnian Muslims have voluntarily converted to Christianity. It is distasteful that some people would resort to … Continue reading

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UN Admits Moral Equivalence in Bosnia Wrong

Another post on the official blog of Daniel Toljaga salvages important elements of historical truth. The post titled “Analysis of the 1999 UN Report on Srebrenica” shows, in United Nations’ own conclusions, that the UN was wrong to view both … Continue reading

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US Pilots Ready to Bomb Serbs to Help Bosniak Allies

By Richard Sisk Daily News Washington Bureau 29 July 1995. WASHINGTON Defense Secretary William Perry yesterday outlined a last-ditch plan for an escalated air campaign by U.S. pilots in Bosnia to stop the ethnic cleansing by Bosnian Serbs. Unless the … Continue reading

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Rearming the Bosnian Muslims May Be Only Way to Help Them

The Item, p.A6 20 April 1994. It has been a week since United States fighters representing NATO bombed Bosnian Serb positions around the embattled city of Gorazde. What has been the result of that air strike in curtailing or at … Continue reading

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Jews in Miami Protest Abuses at Serbian Concentration Camps

The News, A3 11 August 1992. MIAMI BEACH (AP) — A Jewish human rights group dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust called Monday for military intervention to stop the bloody ethnic conflict in what was Yugoslavia. President Bush should … Continue reading

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Vatican Opposes Abortion for Bosniak Rape Victims

Vatican Denies it Permitted Nuns to Use Pills Toledo Blade, p.8 5 March 1993. ROME (NYT) — A controversy initially stirred by Pope John Paul II’s public opposition to abortion for victims of rape in Bosnia-Herzegovina prompted the Vatican yesterday … Continue reading

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PHOTO: Memorial for Genocide in Bosnia

PHOTO: Bosnian Genocide Memorial in Potocari, 03 Nov 2010. Messages reads (on the left hand side) ‘Serbia = Aggression = Genocide’ and ‘Dayton [peace agreement] = Republika Srpska [creation of Serb entity on the ethnically cleansed land]” and (on the right … Continue reading

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Bosnia is a Victim of Serbian Chauvinism

Bosnia is a Victim of Serbian Chauvinism By Chandra Muzaffar New Sunday Times, p.13 25 June 1992. BOSNIA-Herzegovina is one of the most tragic examples in history of how unbridled chauvinism has resulted in the wanton massacre of an entire … Continue reading

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Kozarac (Prijedor): 111 Bosnian Genocide Victims Laid to Rest

Families of 111 victims of the 1992-95 Bosnian Genocide  have honoured their loved ones in a mass funeral ceremony in northwestern Bosnia. The victims’ bodies were found over the past few years in dozens of mass graves scattered around the … Continue reading

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Bosnian Muslims to Honor Pope John Paul II

By Aida Cerkez, The Associated Press They may not recognize him as a saint, but Muslims in Bosnia are considering honouring the late Pope John Paul II with a monument in the heart of Sarajevo. Because of his support for … Continue reading

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Milosevic, Karadzic: “We Shall Never Recognize Bosnia”

Milosevic Rejects U.S. Peace Proposal, But Hope Remains By Dusan Stojanovic The Argus-Press, p.16 25 May 1995. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — In the short run, the Serbian president’s rejection of U.S. terms for recognizing Bosnia could spell trouble for peace … Continue reading

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Photo of a Little Girl Killed in the Srebrenica massacre

Photo of a female Bosniak child victim from the Orahovac (Lazete) mass grave, Exhibit P132/4. Courtesy: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the Hague, Netherlands. Backround: In the first months of war, Serbs destroyed 296 Bosniak villages … Continue reading

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Jews Demand Action, Condemn "Savage" Serb Brutality in Bosnia

The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), the united voice of the organized Jewish community, was formally established in 1944 by the Council of Jewish Federations, the forerunner of the United Jewish Communities (UJC). The JCPA was known for many … Continue reading

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Jews Push U.S. to Arm Bosnian Muslims, Right to Self-Defence

The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), the united voice of the organized Jewish community, was formally established in 1944 by the Council of Jewish Federations, the forerunner of the United Jewish Communities (UJC). The JCPA was known for many … Continue reading

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Bosniaks Rescue British Pilot, 240 dead and 934 wounded in attack on Gorazde

British Warplane Shot Down Saturday in Gorazde Aid officials say Serbs killed 240 and wounded 934 Bosniaks in an attack on Gorazde; Pilot, Lt. Nick Richardson, survives after ejecting from aircraft; Bosnian town on the verge of collapsing to Bosnian Serb forces. The … Continue reading

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Missing Out Core Points on Bosnia

New Straits Times, p.10 18 February 1994. By Tan Sri Ghazali Shafie When I glanced through the newspapers and listened to the radio or watched the television I cannot help feeling that wittingly or otherwise the world is led to sniff … Continue reading

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'Ethnic Cleansing' Continues in Serb-controlled Bosnia

A Bosniak family was bomb-attacked by Serb men in Banja Luka… A Croat woman was grabbed from the streets in broad daylight and raped by a gang of Serb men… an elderly Croat woman was attacked in the city center … Continue reading

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Serbs Intended & Planned the Destruction of Bosniak People

The aim of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina was to destroy the Bosnian Muslims Author: Florence Hartmann Interviewed by Dani (Sarajevo) Translated by the Bosnian Institute, UK on 16 August, 2007 Florence Hartmann covered the former Yugoslavia for Le Monde, later became … Continue reading

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Resolution Passed: US Congress Recognizes Bosnian Genocide (1992-95)

Whereas in July 1995 thousands of men and boys who had sought safety in the United Nations-designated `safe area’ of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina under the protection of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) were massacred by Serb forces … Continue reading

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Besieged Srebrenica Resembled Nazi Concentration Camps

Starving Bosniak Refugees Tell of Horror Record-Journal, p.3 13 March 1993. TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The first emaciated wounded and sick arrived Friday from besieged Srebrenica, leaving behind near-starvation and desperate hardship, including amputation without anesthetic. Doctors at Tuzla’s main … Continue reading

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Ghettos for Jews and Bosnian Muslims

50 years of European progress: Polish Jews: In 1943, some 400,000 Jewish people were rounded up and herded into the Warsaw Ghetto. German Nazis starved them and murdered many of them – just because they were Jewish. Bosnian Muslims: In … Continue reading

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Photo memory of the Brcko massacre in the Bosnian Genocide

A sequence of photographs showing murders of Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) civilians by local Serb police officer Goran Jelisic. Jelisic was apprehended by a Team of US Navy SEALs (as a NATO SFOR Team) in January 1998. He was sentenced to … Continue reading

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Witness: Serbs Killed 1,350 Bosniak Prisoners in Brcko camp

“They raped one woman whose children and parents were present, along with everyone else… They took 15 people out and slit their throats on the grass… Three people who were watching at the window and were noticed by the guards, … Continue reading

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Bosnian Muslims and Jews have a joint experience of persecution and genocide in Europe

Dr. Mustafa Cerić is the Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina (leader of Islamic community) and a prominent member of the Committee on Conscience fighting against the Holocaust denial. Invited by president of Fondation pour la Memoire de la Shoah, David de … Continue reading

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Canada Mourns Bosnian Genocide Victims

Canada Commemorates 15th Anniversary of Srebrenica Genocide (No. 217 – July 10, 2010 – 12:30 p.m. ET) The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement commemorating the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre: “Fifteen years … Continue reading

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