Bosnian Muslims were selected for genocide on religious grounds with Western acquiescence
Evidence
The story told here is not one I wish to believe or to tell. My mother’s family is Serbian American, and I know personally that Serbs have suffered in the Bosnian war-some of my Serb relatives in Bosnia and Krajina (the Serb-inhabited area of Croatia) have been killed, some are missing, and others are living in refugee camps. However, the evidence in Bosnia leads to conclusions that are as unavoidable as they are unpalatable. Genocide has occurred. It has occurred with the acquiescence of Western governments, in violation of the United Nations Charter and the Convention on Genocide of 1948. It has been motivated and justified in large part by religious nationalism, fueled financially and militarily from Serbia and Croatia, and grounded in religious symbols. And the primary victims have been Bosnian Muslims, selected for destruction because of their religion. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 46
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to work on how Western states enabled atrocity via inaction — parallels the ‘disengagement as inhuman’ theme but with state-level acquiescence.
Related
- The Bosnia genocide was religious in four distinct, compounding senses (similarity 0.85)
- Serb Orthodox clergy actively supported the genocide and ethnic cleansing (similarity 0.82)
- Resisting genocide requires first confronting one’s own traditions’ crimes (similarity 0.80)
- Mainstream anti-Muslim prejudice enabled Western acquiescence in the Bosnian assault (similarity 0.79)
- Bosnian Muslims suffered uniquely methodical persecution from both nationalist sides (similarity 0.79)
- Many Serbs resisted the genocide by helping Muslims escape and evading service (similarity 0.79)
- Croat and Serb militias jointly dynamited mosques across eastern Bosnia (similarity 0.78)
- Religious violence in the post-cold war era is a global, not Balkan, force (similarity 0.78)
- The anti-Muslim genocide reused the Christ-killer myth once aimed at Jews (similarity 0.78)