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!
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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.
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