The destruction campaign attempted to erase an existing Bosnian culture
Evidence
What is behind such a seemingly lunatic obsession with destroying culture? Why would Croat and Serb nationalists spend almost four years destroying a culture that did not exist in the first place? The four years of destruction were an attempt to eliminate something that does exist and continues to exist. Testimony to that existence is to be found in the people and cultural world that has survived, and in the empty spaces throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina where so many human lives and cultural monuments used to be. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 383
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: National museums omit annihilated groups, erasing their claim to the nation — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 135
Related
- Nationalist destruction of culture ironically proves that culture existed (similarity 0.87)
- Cultural destruction was performed to make later denial plausible (similarity 0.84)
- Croat forces destroyed Orthodox churches but not systematically like Serbs (similarity 0.80)
- Croat and Serb militias jointly dynamited mosques across eastern Bosnia (similarity 0.79)
- European history of cleansing predicts ghettoized Bosnian Muslims would be destroyed (similarity 0.79)