Bosniak Leaders Must Learn to Speak: Bosnian Chetniks Slaughtered Us, Their Political Heirs Threaten Our Disappearance!

By: Rasim Belko

The day echoing with the cries of mothers laying their children’s bones to rest is slowly fading. Another July 11th has passed. Just as difficult and unbearable as any other. Because it is a day of remembrance of genocide, or rather, a day of burial for those whose bones they managed to find in the Bosnian wilderness. The mix of emotions that arises every July 11th almost exceeds human capacity for enduring pain.

The pain of those still searching is likely unquenchable, as is the pain of those who, at the end of every July 11th, bid farewell to their loved ones in the valley of white monuments of evil.

However, every July 11th also brings an opportunity to learn something anew, especially for us, the compatriots of the victims of the Srebrenica genocide. Because we survived only because the criminal hand did not reach us. And they would have killed us, just like the people of Srebrenica, using the same model and for the same reason: because we are Muslims, because we pray to God differently, and because, as such, we were an obstacle to the territorial plans of bloodthirsty monsters.

So, what did we learn from this July 11th?

Before I write what we should learn from today’s remembrance of the genocide, let me state that it has become evident today that we have not even properly learned the lesson of the day the genocide was committed, nor all the lessons from the July days when we remember the mass slaughter of Bosniaks.

Over the years, various figures who, in different time intervals, decided the paths of Bosniaks, a people subjected to the greatest crimes since World War II, have paraded past the Srebrenica monument to human evil.

But it seems it took someone from the outside, someone from afar, someone with similar pain, to explain to us what was done to us and how, as victims of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and mass rape, we should speak. Especially considering the two adjudicated joint criminal enterprises and the genocide verdicts.

The speech by the Vice President of the World Jewish Congress, Menachem Rosensaft, must be a lesson primarily for the leaders of the Bosniak people, but also for the people as a whole.

Without hesitation and fear of reaction, Rosensaft laid out the facts. Facts that we all know, but which, since the first post-Dayton years, have taught us the rule – don’t, the neighbor (Serb or Croat) will hear.

Rosensaft did not shy away from stating that the Ustashas, Germans, Serbs, Turks, and the Roman Catholic Church committed the crimes of the Holocaust and genocide… He was not afraid of what those named would say because he is aware that he is speaking the truth, established and proven through international judgments.
Why then do Bosniak leaders, and even Muslim religious leaders, hesitate to identify that the genocide in Srebrenica, as well as other heinous crimes, were committed by the Republika Srpska scum and Bosnian Chetniks?

True, this is a narrative imposed on us by the international community in cooperation with the sponsors of the crimes, as part of a project to accustom Bosniaks to a normal state where the country should be handed over to followers of criminal policies, deniers of crimes, and worshippers of criminals.

But this cannot be an excuse for any Bosniak political, religious, or any other leader to be careful not to utter the truth for fear of angering their partners from the Serb or Croat nations. Because Rosensaft spoke the truth, pure as gold – the crime of genocide and other crimes were committed by Bosnian Chetniks, Serbian scum!

The crimes against Bosniaks in Herzegovina and central Bosnia were committed by the Ustashas, i.e., Croatian scum.

Therefore, Rosensaft's speech is the best lesson of July 11, 2023. Because few have identified the perpetrators in such a way, directly naming them, without fear of reaction. Bosniak politicians must overcome this fear of reaction, not only in Srebrenica but always when they have the opportunity to represent the Bosniak people. Because the condescension and circumlocution in the speeches of some earlier generations of politicians left us unprepared for July 1995.

The burden of the current generations is to correct this mistake, which they have repeated, and to say with their heads held high, both at home and in the world, that the genocide in Srebrenica was committed by Serbian scum and Bosnian Chetniks!

The path that Bosniak politics has taken in previous years has more often led to a situation where the descendants of the victims would apologize to the descendants of the executioners from Srebrenica, Foča, Prijedor to Sarajevo, Bihać… And that is a path to ruin, an introduction to new crimes, genocides, and the final disappearance of Bosniaks from their age-old hearths.

Bosniaks are traditionally accustomed to learning lessons in the hardest way that they skipped in the past, so the speech by the Vice President of the World Jewish Congress is an extremely important lesson they received on the saddest day of the year. Rosensaft's courage to speak like this must become a guide for Bosniaks on how to treat themselves, their victims, and their own survival.

Otherwise, if they continue to learn lessons of forced and false reconciliation, through stories wrapped in expensive Western cellophane, about victims on all sides, Bosniaks will very quickly find themselves in a situation of surprise and unpreparedness. And then they inevitably die, perhaps even disappear.

The lesson of July 11, 2023, in short, would be – Serbian scum, Bosnian Chetniks killed us, their heirs are pushing us towards disappearance!