Croat and Serb militias jointly dynamited mosques across eastern Bosnia

Evidence

For the next eighteen months, Croat and Serb religious nationalists collaborated in “Europeanizing” Bosnia. As the HVO attacked from the west, the Serb army moved in on the last remaining Muslim enclaves in eastern Bosnia: Gorazde, Zepa, Cerska, and Srebrenica. Since spring 1992, these towns had held out against the Serb army and had taken in tens of thousands of refugees driven from the surrounding areas. Day by day, mosques were dynamited by the advancing Croat and Serb militias. Tudjman’s “Europeanization” was a euphemism, like “ethnic cleansing,” for the annihilation of Slavic Muslim people and culture and the creation of pure Christian states on the rubble of the once multireligious Bosnia. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 261

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• Croat forces destroyed Orthodox churches but not systematically like Serbs (similarity 0.85)
• Tudjman framed destroying Islamic culture as a Europeanizing mission (similarity 0.84)
• Croat and Serb nationalists coordinated attacks on Muslims while denying culpability (similarity 0.84)
• Croats turned on Muslims they had just rescued from the Serb army (similarity 0.83)
• European history of cleansing predicts ghettoized Bosnian Muslims would be destroyed (similarity 0.83)
• Bosnian Muslims suffered uniquely methodical persecution from both nationalist sides (similarity 0.83)
• Serb Orthodox clergy actively supported the genocide and ethnic cleansing (similarity 0.81)
• Milosevic and Tudjman courted Europe by framing genocide as European defense (similarity 0.81)
• Dividing Bosnia was pre-agreed between the Croatian and Serbian presidents (similarity 0.81)
• Religious violence in the post-cold war era is a global, not Balkan, force (similarity 0.81)
• The Bosnian conflict divided people on religious identity despite shared language and Slavic descent (similarity 0.80)
• The Bosnia genocide was religious in four distinct, compounding senses (similarity 0.80)
• Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian Muslims spoke one shared language despite script differences. (similarity 0.80)
• A church was commissioned to commemorate an ethnically cleansed city (similarity 0.80)
• Both Serb and Croat nationalists shared the view that Slavic Muslims converted from cowardice (similarity 0.79)