Organized grief rituals were channeled directly into genocidal mobilization

Evidence

Three streams of rage-disinterment of remains of Serb victims of genocide in World War II, procession of Lazar’s relics through Bosnia and around Kosovo, and pilgrimage of Serbs to visit the relics in Kosovo-were channeled into a single raging torrent. Within three years, those who directed the festivities in 1989 were organizing the unspeakable depravities against Bosnian civilians. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 202

Categorization

• XREF: Connects richly to the reader’s interest in sacrifice — grief/commemoration ritual as a driver of violence, alongside the ‘On Sacrifice’ article on ritual grief.
• ADDENDUM: Directly extends ‘On Sacrifice: The Real Kind, with Corpses’ — here religious commemoration of martyrs is weaponized to mobilize death, a live-body mirror of sacrificial logic.

Related

• Serb clergy escalated from specific complaints to rhetorical genocide charges (similarity 0.79)