Renaming a city erased Muslim history and became a shouted epithet during killings

Evidence

When the city of Foca was purged of its Muslim population and all traces of their existence had been dynamited and bulldozed, the name of the city was changed to Srbinje (Serb Place). More generally, the term Srbinje has been shouted at Muslims during killings and expulsions throughout Bosnia (“Serb Place!” “Serb Place!”). — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 228

Categorization

• XREF: Renaming as a tool of erasure connects to how colonial powers renamed indigenous places — also builds on the ADDENDUM themes of naming and infrastructure as worldbuilding. Fits the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ essay’s interest in symbolic acts of identity. — connects to: Tamil place names are being replaced to erase minority territorial claims; Colonial renaming erased Innu place-names like Patshetshunau — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 331

Related

• Tamil place names are being replaced to erase minority territorial claims (similarity 0.89)
• Name erasure of Muslim landmarks followed Serb precedent (similarity 0.88)