Resisting genocide requires first confronting one’s own traditions’ crimes

Evidence

To acknowledge the responsibility for genocide within our own traditions is not to abandon the right and the duty to resist new forms of genocide. Indeed, that resistance can be authentic only to the extent that it is rooted in the willingness to confront our own demons. Such resistance is doubly imperative because of the complicity of Western and Christian powers, through the UN Security Council and NATO, in the destruction of Bosnia, a complicity that will be examined in the final chapters of this book. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 250

Related

• The Bosnia genocide was religious in four distinct, compounding senses (similarity 0.82)
• Genocide denial functions to preserve belief in a just world. (similarity 0.81)
• A few denials can disrupt efforts to halt genocide in progress (similarity 0.80)
• Bosnian Muslims were selected for genocide on religious grounds with Western acquiescence (similarity 0.80)
• The anti-Muslim genocide reused the Christ-killer myth once aimed at Jews (similarity 0.80)
• Research on genocide contradicts ordinary beliefs about evil’s origins. (similarity 0.80)
• Rewarding genocidal impunity in Bosnia would model success for future perpetrators worldwide (similarity 0.79)
• A retrieved Serbian tradition could recast Kosovo’s traitor as the genocidaires themselves (similarity 0.79)
• Serb Orthodox clergy actively supported the genocide and ethnic cleansing (similarity 0.79)
• The Christ-killer charge is a theological problem for all Christian traditions (similarity 0.79)
• Collapsing distinct historical wounds into one mythic present fueled genocide (similarity 0.79)
• The UN arms embargo materially enabled the Bosnian genocide. (similarity 0.79)
• The genocide convention aimed to avoid equating all mass destruction with the Holocaust (similarity 0.79)
• Balkanism falsely frames Balkan violence as fated by history or blood (similarity 0.78)