Serb Church leaders publicly sanctified the architects of genocide as following Christ
Evidence
On Orthodox Easter 1993, Metropolitan Nikolaj, the highest-ranking Serb Orthodox Church official in Bosnia, stood between Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic and spoke of the Bosnian Serbs under their leadership as “following the hard road of Christ.” Karadzic suggested the problem in Bosnia could be solved if Muslims would just convert to Serb Orthodoxy. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 230
Categorization
- XREF: The liturgical sanctification of genocidaires on a holy day parallels the Catholic hierarchy’s stance in wartime Croatia — the very parallel Sells drew — and the Christian framing of war in the Crusades.
Related
- Serb Orthodox clergy actively supported the genocide and ethnic cleansing (similarity 0.86)
- The Serbian Orthodox Church’s official voice published justification of the genocide (similarity 0.81)
- Serb clergy escalated from specific complaints to rhetorical genocide charges (similarity 0.80)
- The Christ-killer charge is a theological problem for all Christian traditions (similarity 0.78)