A church was commissioned to commemorate an ethnically cleansed city

Evidence

Zvornik was the first Muslim-majority city in Bosnia to become loo percent “cleansed” of Muslims and to have a new church commissioned in memory of this accomplishment. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 559

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the book’s central claim about religious nationalism transmuting genocide into sacral duty; a compact emblem of the whole argument.

Related

• Physical destruction of mosques enabled wholesale rewriting of local history by nationalist mayors. (similarity 0.81)
• Croat and Serb militias jointly dynamited mosques across eastern Bosnia (similarity 0.80)
• Serb Orthodox clergy actively supported the genocide and ethnic cleansing (similarity 0.78)