Many Serbs resisted the genocide by helping Muslims escape and evading service
Evidence
Despite the effort of Serb religious nationalists to dehumanize both their own population and their target population, many Serbs have resisted and kept their humanity. Serbs in Serbia evaded military service in large numbers. Bosnian Muslim survivors commonly reported that a Serb or (in the case of Croat extremist violence) a Croat helped them escape. A soldier or border guard may have turned a blind eye as a Bosnian slipped away from an atrocity or fled to safe territory. A family might shelter a fugitive in their home, at great risk. A Muslim survivor of the killing camp at Susica mentioned that a Serb priest tried to help him. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 222
Related
- Bosnian Muslims suffered uniquely methodical persecution from both nationalist sides (similarity 0.79)
- Bosnian Muslims suffered wartime losses rivaling Serbs yet bore Nazi stigma (similarity 0.79)
- Bosnian Muslims were selected for genocide on religious grounds with Western acquiescence (similarity 0.79)
- Croat and Serb militias jointly dynamited mosques across eastern Bosnia (similarity 0.78)