Serbian nationalists want to remove signs of crimes committed in the name of separatism!

Serbian nationalists continue to do everything to prevent any reminder of the crimes committed in the name of their separatism, mostly against Bosniaks, writes the reputable British newspaper “The Guardian” today, reports the BH news agency Patria (NAP).

Their reporter Julian Borger visited towns in eastern Bosnia, including Višegrad and Foča, where local authorities do not allow the construction of memorials to the victims of genocide.

Serbian nationalists want to construct an alternative history in which Serbs are the greatest victims. Many Bosniaks and foreign observers express concern that such a refusal to accept history means that there are weak guarantees that such crimes will not be repeated – the text of “The Guardian” states.

The author points out that neither Bosniaks nor Croats quickly allowed memorials to victims of other nationalities to be built, but, as he points out, in Republika Srpska, the scale of killing was far the greatest, and the “culture of denial is still the deepest”.

The text mentions the refusal of local authorities in Višegrad to have the word genocide on the memorial, and the attempt to demolish the house in which more than 70 Bosniaks were burned in one of the worst individual crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Guardian reporter states that the most powerful man in Višegrad is currently Miroslav Kojić, a former soldier and “member of the RS secret police” and now an MP for the SDS in the National Assembly of RS.

As stated in the text, Kojić tried to justify the bans to the British journalist by claiming that there was no verdict for the committed genocide in Višegrad, and, as he stated, he “told him an alternative side of history” in which Bakira Hasečić, president of the “Association of Women Victims of War”, as Kojić claimed, “tortured Serbian police officers and soldiers”.

However, the author of the text, in response to Kojić’s claims, states the following:

- In the summer of 1992, survivors from concentration camps did form the first Bosniak Višegrad brigade, which fought a guerrilla war on the western bank of the Drina, but it was never close to threatening Višegrad before being pushed towards Goražde. Bakira Hasečić, after surviving multiple rapes, joined the Army of BiH, but there is no evidence that she mistreated Serbs."..

In fact, attempts by Bosniaks to defend themselves from attacks are used as excuses for building monuments to Serbian soldiers and Russian volunteers, while there are no such memorials for Bosniak civilians, reports NAP.

- This is a practice throughout Republika Srpska – states "The Guardian".