Vecernje novosti (Evening News), Belgrade, Monday, 5 June 2006, Page 10 Who is Hiding the Truth about the Suffering of Serbs in Sarajevo from 1992-1995 and Why?
SILENCE - A MASK FOR GENOCIDE By Vlastimir Popovic After years-long research, we have established that 5.515 Serbs were killed in Sarajevo during the reign of Alija Izetbegovic, which is considerably more than the number of Serbs who perished in this city at the time of Pavelic's independent State of Croatia. The pall of silence is cast over this horrible crime as it cannot be ascribed only to the orgies of Bosnian criminals run amok, says Milivoje Ivanisevic, Director of the Centre for the Investigation of Crimes Committed against the Serbian People During the last war, Sarajevo was a ruthless infernal camp for tens of thousands of Serbs. From 1992 to 1995, 5.515 of them were murderd there. About 20.000 Serbs passed through monstrous torture chambers in some of 123 Muslim camps in Sarajevo. Hundreds of Serbian girls and women were raped by Alija's military. As an epilogue of the ethnic cleansing and genocide, 150.000 Serbs were expelled from Sarajevo. Today the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina is ethnically the "purist" capital in Europe. This information is being given to us by Milivoje Ivanisevic, Director of the Centre for the Investigation of Crimes Committed against the Serbian People, at the beginning of the interview. "As early as 13 July 1992, the citizens of the municipalities of Rajlovac, Vogosca, Central sarajevo, Ilidza and Ilijas addressed an Appeal to the Peace-Loving international Community for the salvation of the Incarcerated serbs in Sarajevo", says Ivanisevic. Not only was the appeal not heeded, but a media hype followed against the Serbs because of the suffering of the Sarajevo Muslims! Along with a distorted media picture began a systematic persecution and extermination of the Serbs in accordance with Alija Izetbegovic's position that no coexistence is possible between Islam and other faiths. It is too tepid to say that all international humanitarian and non-governmental organizations, and there were tens of them with several thousands representatives, should be ashamed of themselves for not confronting Muslim crimes and the pogrom of Serbs. And they did what they did because they were paid to work for the interests of those who committed crimes against Serbs. They were rewarded well for the service. They made media shows and portrayed victims as criminals and vice versa." WHAT DO THE GRAVES HIDE Q: You have quoted the names of 5.515 murdered Serbs, while the Bosniac press recently brought the information that 768 Sarajevo Serbian civilians lost their lives during the war. A: Under the pressure of facts and requested to set up a special commission which would establish the truth about the suffering of the Serbs, it is my impression that someone from the international community compelled the authorities in Sarajevo to accept some of the blame, says Ivanisevic. The number of Serbian victims is constantly falsified and lessened. We do not peddle numbers. We have lists for all Sarajevo municipalities and neighbourhoods with full names of the victims. They contain 5.515 names of Serbs. We have patiently collected evidence on the atrocities of the Muslims. That is why we have exact names of the victims, places of their birth and places of their death. The number of victims, unfortunately, can only be higher than the number at so far. The names of another 500 murdered Serbs are being checked, so that we can say that the exact number of victims is at least that much higher. And not all mass graves have been discovered yet. THE APPLICATION AND THE SERBIAN VICTIMS "In our "defence" in the case of the application of Bosnia and Hercegovina for genocide, nobody on our side even mentioned the suffering of the Serbs", fumes Ivanisevic. "The leader of our defence team, Radoslav Stojanovic, for instance, keeps repeating like a parrot that "Serbs committed many crimes against Muslims, but that it was not genocide." and when "many and many" is addded up, we'll come to genocide, too. At the time, Stojanovic never ventured to utter a word about at least part of the truth about the suffering of the Serbs. And now we have the situation that people hear for the first time for Serbian victims, genocidal actions of the proponents of an Islamic state with the capital city of Sarajevo in it. Alija Izetbegovic's Islamic Declaration has been lost sight of, too." Q: Why are, in your opinion, the Serbian victims in Sarajevo being minimized? A: Although it is being repeated time and time again that it is "unimportant" whether 100 or 5.000 innocent people have been killed because, as it is said, it is a crime to kill a single innocent person, it is clear that a smaller number of victims means lesser responsibility of those who ruled the city and the state. The number of those responsible for the killing of 300 and 600 people cannot be the same as the number of responsible for the death of 5.515, either. Our data and the statements collected on over 10.000 pages on the crimes committed by the Muslims point to genocide and cannot be subsumed under orgies of dissolute Bosnian criminals. In the documents on perpetrators of crimes, we have recorded 3.350 names mainly of outright executioners. Surely, the names of the rulers the city of Sarajevo and its municipalities in which terror over the Serbs reigned should be added to the list. Q: The Bosniacs portray their soldiers as innocent civilian victims, and Serbian civilians as occupation soldiers killed in action? A: By the large, the Serbs in Sarajevo were in the areas in which they had constituted the majority before the war, so that they could not occupy themselves. Besides, they were not military organized, but were held captive instead. The Muslims registered a part of Serbian victims as "defenders of the city", as "victims of Serbian shelling" or as BIH Army members killed in action. The Muslims forced the captured Serbs to dig trenchers along division lines. They used them as human shields in operations against the Army of the Republic of Srpska, so that it retreated in many cases not wanting to shoot at its own people. At the same time, the Serbs were continual targets of Muslim snipers. "DEATH BY NATURAL CAUSES" Q: In what way do the Bosniacs deny the victims in 123 Sarajevo camps? A: One of the bestial rules in treating of captive Serbs was their release home, after their Muslim torturers had taken turns to vent their crudest instincts, starve and beat them for a long time, a couple of days before they would die in order to register them, with proper medical documents, as persons who died in their homes from natural causes. "Death by natural causes at home" was the most frequent citation of the cause of death of those who were brutally killed in their homes. Q: It is our impression that the question of Serbian victims in Sarajevo would not be raised even now had the Bosniacs not "admitted" it themselves. Why this long silence about the killed Serbs? A: And let me ask you why the application against the Muslims for the genocide against the Serbs has been withdrawn? As many as 10 books have been written in the plight of the Serbs in Sarajevo, the Governments of the Republic of Srpska and Serbia have been given all relevant data with survivors' statements, criminal evidence, names of both victims and their executioners, but silence prevailed and continues to prevail. That is outrageous. The policy of hiding one's own people's suffering is inadmissible. I personally presented the evidence on genocide against the Serbs in Sarajevo on the platter to the representatives of some parties in Serbia and the Republic of Srpska. They did not bother to answer and you ask me why. We collected millions of data, and no interest has been shown by the media, either. Evidently, it does not suit some Serbian politicians that truth be told. Q: You made comparisons between the sufferings of the Serbs in Sarajevo during World War Two and in the period from 1992 to 1995. A: The life of Serbs in Sarajevo in the last war was not different from the life of the Jews in Berlin during Hitler's rule. What the Gestapo was for the Jews, Sanjaklis, most of them citizens of the FRY, i.e. Serbia and Montenegro, were for the Serbs in Sarajevo and they were never called to account for their crimes. In the period from 1992 to 1995 during the Muslim reign of Alija Izetbegovic in Sarajevo, more Serbs were killed than in the period of the same length by the Ustashe and Germans during World War Two. At the time of Independent State of Croatia 2.278 Serbs were killed in direct terror, mass slaughters and prisons. Only in the nine months of the first war year of 1992, 2.647 Serbs were killed. 10 a day! More Serbs were killed during nine months of 1992 than in four years of Ustasha terror! ============ WITHOUT A MEMORIAL "The Muslims fiercely opposed setting up a Commission to establish the truth on the suffering of the Serbs in Sarajevo as it could disprove their Falsifications", points Ivanisevic. No memorial to serbian victims is allowed to be erected, either. Whether and when will serbian and the Republic of Srpska insist that the truth be known? I do not know. ============== Vecernje novosti (Evening News), Belgrade, Monday, 5 June 2006, Page 10 =============== Group Moderator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] page at http://magazine.sorabia.net for more informations about current situation in Serbia http://www.sorabia.net Slusajte GLAS SORABIJE nas talk internet-radio (Serbian Only) http://radio.sorabia.net Yahoo! 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