Jovan Divjak's name corrected below.
Reminded of a recent RT show, where Muhamed Sacirbey lauded the featured Serb Jovan Divjak in the above linked article.
The RT show in question and follow-up comments:
http://rt.com/programs/crosstalk/anniversary-srebrenica-massacre-politics/
Misha Gavrilovic is knowledgeable of Serb views. Muhamed Sacirbey is American TV news media savvy.
The latter didn’t address several points, while downplaying some others.
- Bosnian Muslim nationalist culpability in keeping Srebrenica a tense war zone in the lead up to the mass killing of Muslims.
- Earlier Bosnian Muslim nationalist violence against Serbs in the Srebrenica area.
- The panel didn’t get into the matter of determining the number of people killed in Srebrenica by summary execution, collateral damage, as well as those who were armed combatants. Some other Bosnian Civil War casualties have since been acknowledged as bloated. Over the course of time, the Bosnian Muslim nationalist side has been prone to trumping up figures as a way of getting greater worldwide sympathy. At present, there’re claims that there’s a good basis to disbelieve the figure that near 7,000 or more Muslim males were summarily executed at Srebrenica. This view doesn’t deny that summary executions on a noticeable scale took place and that such action falls under a war crime status.
- Sacirbey’s comments on the Bosnian Civil War alliances omitted mention of the the Muslims who chose to fight against Alija Izetbegovic’s forces, while siding with the Serbs and/or Croats. One such Muslim Fikret Abdic, appears to have been a more prominent figure than Sacirbey's preferred Serb. In an election, Abdic received more popular votes than Izetbegovic.
- The state of West Virginia is a product of the American Civil War. At the outbreak of that conflict, the majority of Virginians chose to side with the upstart Confederacy, whereas the rest of that state preferred to exist within the Union.
- Instead of choosing to remain part of what was still a very multiethnic Yugoslavia (even with the secessions of Croatia and Slovenia), the Bosnian Muslim nationalists chose separatism in an entity where they would be in a dominant position as the plurality. The Bosnian Muslim nationalist leader at the time authored (in 1970) an Islamic Declaration, with passages contradicting the idea of multiethnic tolerance.
- While it’s true that Bosnian Croats en masse didn’t seek a continued existence in Yugoslavia, it’s also true that they aren’t/weren’t so keen in living in a Bosnian Muslim dominated state.
- http://www.americanchronicle.com/authors/view/2713
- http://www.eurasiareview.com/author/michael-averko/
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