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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 9, 2021, 10:06 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/serbia-gives-award-2019-nobel-195337544.html
[quote]Serbia on Sunday honored 2019 Nobel Literature Prize
winner Peter Handke, who is known for his apologist views over
Serbia’s nationalist policies and Serb war crimes during the
1990s wars in the Balkans.
The Austrian novelist and screenwriter received a state
decoration from Serbia President Aleksandar Vucic, a former
ultranationalist who now says he wants his country to join the
European Union. On Friday, Handke also received honors from
Bosnian Serbs.
“Thank you for everything you have done for Serbia,” Vucic said.
“Serbia is showing gratitude to its friend with this
(decoration).”
The RTS television said Handke was awarded for “special
contribution in representing Serbia and its citizens in the area
of public and cultural activities and for personal persistence
in uncompromising responsibility toward the truth.”
Handke is adored by Serbs for support during the wars of the
1990s’ and the era of late strongman Slobodan Milosevic when
Serbs were widely blamed for fomenting the conflict that killed
more than 100,000 people. Handke is considered persona non grata
in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, and in Kosovo, a former
Serbian province that declared independence in 2008.[/quote]
When do we bomb Serbia again?
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 7, 2021, 3:42 am
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A small success:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/illegal-serb-church-bosniak-womans-102024705.html
[quote]SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian authorities
on Saturday demolished a Serbian Orthodox church that was
illegally built on land owned by a Bosniak woman, a move that
comes after a 20-year legal battle that saw the case reach the
European Court of Human Rights.
Workers and construction machinery arrived at Fata Orlovic's
yard in the village of Konjevic Polje early Saturday. Using a
crane, they brought down the white-colored church and its tower
bell.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled in October 2019 that
authorities must remove the church and pay damages to the
Orlovic family totaling 31,000 euros ($36,500).
The church was built shortly after Orlovic and her family were
expelled from the village, 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of
Srebrenica during the 1992-95 Bosnian War. The family are
Bosniaks, who are mostly Muslim, and the village was taken by
Bosnian Serbs, who are mainly Orthodox Christians.
“Thank God we finally saw this happen,” said Orlovic, who is in
her late 70s. “I am exhausted after 20 years."
“Now, finally, I can sit down and have a cup of coffee in my
yard without being chased out. I have never done anything wrong
to them,” she added.
Orlovic's husband was among some 8,000 Bosniak men and boys
murdered by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica in 1995, the worst
carnage of the ethnic conflict. The Srebrenica massacre has been
acknowledged internationally as Europe's only genocide since
World War II.
Upon returning to her village after the war, Orlovic's demands
that the church be removed were ignored. In 2000, she launched
legal proceedings to force the authorities of Republika Srpska,
the name of the postwar Serb-run entity in Bosnia, to
comply.[/quote]
But it's not over yet:
[quote]Local authorities have said they will rebuild the
Orthodox church at the entrance to the village.[/quote]
The entire Serbian Orthodox Church (I'm not talking about a
building, I'm talking about the institution and those who
populate it) must be destroyed!
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: rp Date: June 7, 2021, 6:46 am
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Nice meme! Did you create it yourself?
I was born in the 21st century, so I have no memory of the pre
9/11 world. However, much of the counterculture stuff I was
exposed to during my childhood via television/video games did
resonate with me. I always felt like I "belonged" to that era
tbh. I could also sense that things were getting worse (e.g.
economy) by picking up the bits and pieces of information I
heard on the news, even if I couldn't fully comprehend it.
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: rp Date: June 13, 2021, 9:45 pm
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Genocide conviction upheld for Mladic:
HTML https://youtu.be/PQxlXUDaV_E
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 30, 2021, 10:47 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-serbian-security-officials-convicted-170616591.html
[quote]A United Nations court on Wednesday convicted two wartime
Serbian State Security officials for aiding and abetting war
crimes committed by Serbian paramilitaries during Bosnia and
Herzegovina's 1992–95 war, AP reports.
Why it matters: This is the final UN trial at The Hague for
crimes committed during the breakup of Yugoslavia. It's the
first time that high-ranking wartime Serbian government
officials have been convicted for crimes committed in Bosnia,
per the New York Times.[/quote]
But the sentence is absurd:
[quote]State of play: Jovica Stanisic, the former head of
Serbian State Security, and Franko Simatovic, his former deputy,
were each sentenced to 12 years in prison for helping to
ethnically cleanse non-Serbs from the Bosnian town of Bosanski
Samac.[/quote]
12 years?! It's OK to be Serbian?
And no mention of giving back the town to Bosnia? This is why
the UN is useless and only using WMDs on Serbia will work.
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 10, 2021, 11:48 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/survivors-bosnia-massacre-grapple-horrors-061651251.html
[quote]SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Through tears and
in between fraught silences, Devla Ajsic refuses to remain quiet
any longer.
Ajsic was 21 years old and three months pregnant in July 1995
when she was repeatedly sexually assaulted in Srebrenica while
her fiance and thousands of other mostly Muslim men and boys
were taken away and executed in Europe’s only acknowledged
genocide since World War II.
For decades, Ajsic did not talk openly about the horrors she
endured after Bosnian Serb forces stormed the eastern Bosnian
town in the waning months of the Balkan country’s 1992-95 war.
“I locked it all inside for 26 years and suffered in silence. I
had no one to confide in, no one to share my pain with. ... I
cannot take it any longer,” said the now 47-year-old Ajsic,
steeling herself as she finally spoke publicly of her ordeal on
the eve of the 26th anniversary of the massacre Sunday.
When Bosnian Serb forces captured Srebrenica, which had been
declared a U.N. “safe haven” for civilians in 1993, about 30,000
of its terrified Muslim residents rushed to the U.N. compound at
the entrance to town in the hope that the Dutch U.N.
peacekeepers there would protect them.
However, the outgunned and outnumbered peacekeepers watched
helplessly as Serb troops took some 2,000 men and boys from the
compound for execution, raped the women and girls, and then
bused the women, children and elderly to Bosniak Muslim-held
territory.
Ajsic said she was sexually assaulted and tortured for three
days before departing Srebrenica in one of the last buses packed
with refugees.
“The things they did to me, they tied me to a desk, my neck and
my chest were blue from bruises, I was sprawled naked on that
table,” she recounted, sobbing. The Associated Press typically
doesn’t name sex abuse victims except in cases where they opt to
speak publicly.
Ajsic said the Serb soldiers drugged her, clouding her mind, but
even so she was acutely aware she was not the only woman kept
bound and subject to horrific abuse in a hangar of the then-U.N.
compound.
There are no words to describe their “screaming, their cries for
help," she said of the women. “What could we do when (the
soldiers) came through that door unzipping their pants and
walked toward us? We were like lambs, like sacrificial lambs
waiting for a knife to slaughter us.”[/quote]
What else did you expect from Orthodox Church followers?
[quote]And yet, she believes her personal nightmare, including
the loss of the fetus she had to abort after fleeing Srebrenica,
is dwarfed by the weeklong Bosnian Serb killing spree in which
over 8,000 mostly Muslim men and boys from the town perished.
Most of the victims were hunted down and summarily executed as
they tried to flee into nearby forest. Their bodies were plowed
into hastily dug mass graves and then later excavated with
bulldozers and scattered among other burial sites to hide
evidence of the crime.
Many wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of those killed in
Srebrenica have dedicated their lives to fighting for the truth
about what happened to their men and searching for their
remains. And yet, in over a quarter-century, only a handful have
publicly spoken of the sexual abuse they suffered during the
fall of Srebrenica.
The women stubbornly stood their ground when confronted with
political opposition to their request to set up a memorial
cemetery across from the former Dutch U.N. base, where on every
July 11 since 2002 they have reburied the remains of their loved
ones.
So far, the remains of more than 6,600 people have been exhumed
from mass graves, identified by forensic analysis and reburied
at the site. The remains of 19 more victims will be laid to rest
there Sunday.
Srebrenica’s Bosniak women were also key to cases brought
against the United Nations and the Netherlands over the failure
of the Dutch U.N. troops to protect the town’s civilians in
1995, and the adoption of a European Parliament resolution
commemorating July 11 as the Day of Remembrance of the
Srebrenica genocide.
Among them was Munira Subasic, who lost her husband, a son and
22 other male relatives in the massacre.
She, along with dozens of others testified before a special U.N.
war crimes tribunal in The Hague to prosecute the crimes
committed during the 1990s Balkan wars that followed the
dissolution of former Yugoslavia, helping put behind bars
Bosnian Serb war-time political and military leaders Radovan
Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, both convicted of genocide and war
crimes and jailed for life.
Although the Srebrenica massacre was branded genocide by
international and national courts, Serbian and Bosnian Serb
officials still downplay or deny the crime. For many Srebrenica
women setting the historical record straight about what happened
to their men has become their life’s purpose.
“We have to keep fighting for truth and justice in order to
prevent the young generations (in the Balkans) from being
infected by hate, from seeking revenge,” Subasic said.[/quote]
WRONG. We fight for truth and justice in order to set alight the
young generations with hate and determination for seeking
revenge against Serbia. Only after Serbia ceases to exist and
all Serb bloodlines are permanently eliminated can we rest.
[quote]Bosnian Serb political leaders have consistently
prevented the country from adopting a law that would ban
genocide denial, with the Serb member of Bosnia’s presidency,
Milorad Dodik, even publicly describing the Srebrenica slaughter
as a “fabricated myth.”
What Bosniak Muslim women like Subasic are up against is
“active, institutional and institutionalized genocide denial” by
Serbian and Bosnian Serb officials, said Emir Suljagic, the
director of the Srebrenica Memorial Centre.
“The people who took part in genocide are still alive and the
political class which is deeply invested in (the war crimes) of
the 1990s is still in power,” Suljagic said, noting that Serbian
President Aleksandar Vucic was a former ultranationalist
government minister who, in July 1995, threatened to kill 100
Muslim Bosniaks for every Serb killed if the international
community intervened to stop the Srebrenica slaughter.[/quote]
If we kill every Serb, which Serbs will be left to kill Muslims?
This is how we need to think about the problem.
[quote]Vucic has now rebranded himself as a pro-European Union
reformer, but it did not stop him from condemning as “an act of
betrayal" resolutions passed recently by Montenegro and Kosovo
condemning the Srebrenica genocide and banning its denial.
Having returned a year ago to Srebrenica with her 24-year-old
son and his family after living for decades in a region of
central Bosnia, Ajsic no longer believes a normal life is
possible after the horrors she endured.
Her late husband banned her from talking publicly about the
abuse because of the stigma still surrounding the rapes, but
with his death she felt free to unload a little of her trauma
now.
She says she is afraid to walk the streets of Srebrenica, a town
now shared between massacre survivors and massacre deniers,
because she never knows if the people she encounters consider
the genocide a fabrication or even took part in it.
“I came back to live in Srebrenica, but I am terrified to walk
on the streets here because I don’t know who the people driving
in the cars around me are, what kind of people they are,” she
said.[/quote]
Your terror will only cease when no Serbs remain in the world.
Do you want your terror to cease or not?
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: Zea_mays Date: July 23, 2021, 1:15 pm
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The importance of placing duty and mission above bureaucracy:
[quote]These Swedish troops, coming from a nation that had not
experienced war for almost 200 years, faced a rigid UN
bureaucracy, an unclear mandate, and the UN-imposed rules of
engagement bordered on the absurd.[2] However, the Swedes had
one thing the others didn't: a culture of mission command that
had grown and developed for decades.
To the surprise of many, even in Sweden, Nordbat 2 quickly
established a reputation as one of the most trigger-happy UN
units in Bosnia. The troops and officers from some of the least
belligerent nations in the world turned out to be quite adept at
both using force and playing the odds in a high-stakes political
game. This article outlines how a well-entrenched culture of
mission command enabled Nordbat 2 to take on completely new and
unexpected situations with remarkable results. While this
culture of mission command turned out to be a potent force
multiplier and an exceptionally effective strategic asset, it
also had another side: Nordbat 2 on multiple occasions utterly
disregarded orders from its highest political authorities, to
the frustration of the Swedish government.
[...]
The culture of mission command in Sweden dates back to 1943,
when senior Swedish army officers were taking note of the
tactical superiority of German troops fighting Soviets on the
Eastern Front.
[...]
The Swedish Armed Forces were consequently trained to respond to
a massive Soviet invasion force [...] The Swedish Army estimated
that a breakdown of command and control was a likely scenario as
the Soviets would inevitably disrupt communications, destroy
command centers, and seize territory, thereby isolating segments
of the Swedish Army. In order to cope with this contingency,
all units were trained to engage in what was known as "the free
war," (i.e. autonomous operations against local targets, without
centralized command).
[...]
Considering that all Swedish Army units were expected to be able
to operate autonomously, the culture of mission command
completely permeated the entire organization. The officers and
non-commissioned officers (NCOs), all the way down to the
lowest-ranking enlisted men, were taught that the only truly
mortal sin was to hesitate. To seize the initiative and act was
the primary imperative. There was no priority higher than that
of achieving the mission objectives at hand. Orders could be
disobeyed, rules could be broken—as long as the mission was
successful.
[...]
This caused some consternation among the political elites in the
country at the time, who insisted that the deployment would be a
peacekeeping mission with no more than a minimum risk. They most
certainly did not expect any significant confrontations between
Nordbat 2 and the parties to the conflict. Henricsson, however,
had his own set of expectations. He let the media know he would
personally ensure Nordbat 2 brought body bags and that everyone
who served under him would be ordered to write their wills
before departing. When asked by the media, Henricsson made it
clear that his interpretation of the mission objectives (which
he had developed himself on the basis of the original UN
mandate, rather than taking clues from his political superiors)
was that protection of the civilian population was the highest
priority. In order to achieve this, Henricsson expected that
force might be used, and that losses were a real possibility.
[...]
Shortly after it had been deployed to Bosnia in December 1993,
Nordbat 2 found itself in its first serious hostile encounter.
[...]
Then they issued an ultimatum: hand over the three Muslim
nurses, and we will leave you alone. The Swedish platoon leader,
Captain Stewe Simson, radioed battalion command, and was told
that it was his call to make, since he was the one in charge at
the location. Captain Simson refused to hand over the nurses and
instead ordered his men to prepare for combat.
Vastly outnumbered and outgunned, Captain Simson realized that
it was unrealistic to expect that his unit would survive a
full-out assault. Nevertheless, he was determined not to give
in. The Croats started to fire mortar rounds, but the Swedes
held their positions. After a few hours, the Croats issued a new
ultimatum: the nurses could stay if the Croats were granted free
passage to the compound. Again, Captain Simson refused. The
situation remained tense throughout the night, with the Swedes
maintaining full combat readiness. In the morning, the Croats
negotiated with the Swedes and eventually left, quietly dropping
their ultimatums. Nordbat 2 had shown resolve even in the face
of hopeless odds, achieving a strategically important victory as
a result of a decision made by a platoon commander.
Other incidents followed. When fired at, Nordbat 2 often shot
back, frequently disregarding the UN rules of engagement.
Colonel Henricsson made it clear that he would not respect rules
and regulations that threatened to prevent him from achieving
his mission objectives. When his own government tried to rein
him in, he simply told his radio operator to pretend that the
link was down until he had a fait accompli to present to
Stockholm.
[...]
In several other incidents, Nordbat 2 personnel intervened to
protect refugees and took action to prevent the cover-up of
ethnic cleansing operations. On several occasions this took the
form of forcing passage through roadblocks. During one such
event, the battalion commander himself forced a sentry to remove
the anti-tank mines used to block passage by threatening to blow
the sentry's head off with a heavy machine gun.
[...]
This can be contrasted with the Dutch peacekeepers who were
deployed in Srebrenica. The Dutch unit and Nordbat 2 operated
under the same regional command, in the same general area. The
Dutch peacekeepers, representing a professional elite airborne
unit, were more or less helpless for more than a year inside the
Srebrenica enclave because they were unwilling to initiate any
confrontations with the parties to the conflict, and because
they were willing to be micromanaged by their home government.
Nordbat 2, on the other hand, was something of a loose cannon,
and earned a reputation as a force to be reckoned with. It even
became known as "Shootbat" for its tendency to return fire,
regardless of the formal rules of engagement.
Nordbat 2's willingness to bend or even break the rules, and
disregard direct orders from both UN command and its own
government, enabled it to achieve its mission objectives as
defined by the first battalion commander: protect the civilians
at all cost. However, this also poses a challenge to the
traditional civil-military dilemma: on several occasions Nordbat
2 did not accept the control of its civilian leadership.
Accustomed to mission command, Nordbat 2 acted as it had been
taught: rules can be broken as long as it is done to achieve the
mission objectives.
[...]
The most essential component of mission command is trust. As
long as political leaders can trust the local commander to make
the right choices, mission command can be an incredibly powerful
force multiplier. Even though Nordbat 2's first battalion
commanders were very unpopular with the Swedish government for
their refusal to take orders from home, they were nevertheless
greeted as heroes upon their return and remain viewed so to this
day. This meant the Swedish government did not have to deal with
the political fallout of the otherwise failed UN mission. The
Dutch government, for example, was hard-pressed by public
opinion after the massacre at Srebrenica in the summer of 1995.
In 2002, the entire Dutch government was forced to resign over
Srebrenica, after a detailed report blaming the government for
the failure was released to the public.[/quote]
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 16, 2021, 9:10 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/bosnia-police-jail-8-war-100520834.html
[quote]SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian police on
Thursday arrested eight former Bosnian Serb army commanders and
soldiers in the 1992 wartime killing of about 100 Bosniaks,
including women, children and older people, authorities said.
The eight are facing charges of crimes against humanity and war
crimes against war prisoners, Bosnian security agency SIPA said.
A statement from the Bosnian prosecutor’s office said the
arrests relate to the 1992 killings in the southern Bosnian
region of Nevesinje of around 100 Bosniaks, who are mostly
Muslims.
The victims included babies and small children from 15 days old
to 2 years old, as well as dozens of women and older people.
Entire families were killed, along with other victims, the
prosecutor's statement said.
The remains of 49 people have been recovered so far while the
search is underway for the remains of at least 47 more, the
statement added.
Thursday's arrests came after similar actions were conducted in
previous weeks also targeting suspected war criminals.
More than 100,000 people were killed during the war in Bosnia
between the country’s Serbs, Bosniaks and Croats. The war
erupted after Bosnian Serbs rebelled against the country's
independence from the former Yugoslavia and took hold of large
swaths of land, killing and expelling Bosniaks and Croats.
The conflict ended in a U.S.-brokered peace agreement in 1995,
but Bosnia is still struggling to recover amid lingering ethnic
tensions.[/quote]
Bosnia will not recover until all Serb bloodlines have been
eliminated from existence.
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 30, 2021, 8:08 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/nine-serbs-indicted-killing-around-121009314.html
[quote]SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A Bosnian war crimes prosecutor has
indicted nine Bosnian Serbs for the killing of around 100 Muslim
Bosniaks, including seven entire families, early in the 1992-95
war, the prosecutor's office said in a statement on Wednesday.
Twenty-six years after the end of its devastating war between
Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks in which
about 100,000 people had died, Bosnia is still searching for
people who went missing and seeking justice against the
suspected perpetrators.
At the same time, the Balkan country is going through its worst
post-war political crisis, with Bosnian Serb leaders' threat of
pulling out of Bosnia's national institutions, including the
joint armed forces, raising fears of a new conflict.
The nine men, the former members and commanders of the Bosnian
Serb wartime army, are accused of killing the Bosniak civilians
from the area around the southeastern Bosnian town of Nevesinje,
including dozens of women, elderly people and small children.
The prosecutor's office said seven families were among those
killed in the summer of 1992. The remains of 49 people have been
found while 47 people are still unaccounted for.[/quote]
If they killed 100 of us and we only kill 9 of them, they still
won. What is so difficult to understand about this?
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbs
[quote]Total population
c. 10 million*[/quote]
This is the correct number of Serbs to kill, or at the very
least (if they surrender unconditionally) prohibit from
reproducing.
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 4, 2022, 8:55 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-troops-needed-prevent-return-174935816.html
[quote]U.S. troops needed to prevent return to war, Bosnia
defense chief says
Sarajevo - Just three decades ago, the country today known as
Bosnia and Herzegovina was the center of Europe's bloodiest
conflict since World War II. The war that erupted between the
country's Muslim Bosniaks, Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats
left about 100,000 people dead and displaced millions more.
The landmark moment in the bloodshed was the massacre in
Srebrenica in July 1995, when some 8,000 Muslim men and boys
were murdered by Bosnian Serbs. NATO intervened, and finally,
after more than three years of bloodshed, the United States was
able to broker a ceasefire later that year.
...
Christian Schmidt is the high representative to Bosnia and
Herzegovina, a job created as part of the peace accord. His
mission is to oversee the implementation of the Dayton Accords
that have kept the peace for 30 years, and he told CBS News that
he sees a creeping dismantlement of the country from within.
...
Ohran told CBS News there's still a lot of hostility toward the
Muslim community in Bosnia, and she believes Dodik is fueling
it, very deliberately.
"In many interviews, Dodik degrades the Muslim community, denies
that the Srebrenica genocide happened," she said. "In my
opinion, he is voting for a cultural war here in Bosnia."
Abdi, who lives in the capital Sarajevo, echoed Ohran's
concerns: "We can't afford the luxury to think we won't have
another conflict. That's what we thought in 1992, and we were
wrong."
The most immediate concern is the possibility that Dodik will
withdraw Republika Srpska from the Bosnian armed forces, which
could leave him with some revived iteration of an ethnic Serb
army.
That is of particular concern to Sifet Podzic, Bosnia and
Herzegovina's minister of defense.
"Unfortunately, the situation is very grave. Since the signing
of the Dayton Peace Agreement, this is the most difficult year,"
he told CBS News. "We have a specific situation here: In case of
an internal conflict, the armed forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina
have no mission whatsoever to deal with an internal conflict."
As the country's own forces cannot be deployed to fight any part
of the fragile alliance that splits off – and the Bosnia and
Herzegovina military would cease to exist in its current form
anyway, should Dodik make good on his threat – Podzic told CBS
News that U.S. or NATO forces are needed in the country, once
again, to keep the peace.
Majda Ruge, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on
Foreign Relations thinktank, said Dodik's recent words and
actions are part of a well-established pattern of provocation by
the Serb leader.
"This is now an escalation of a process that has been ongoing
since 2006, really since he assumed power in Republika Srpska,"
she told CBS News. "He has been repeatedly assaulting the
authority of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina and threatening
the maximalist scenario of secession to negotiate kind of
concessions and weaken the authority of the state."
...
With memories of the Bosnia War fading, it's far from clear that
the U.S. and its European allies are willing to do what it takes
to ensure that the state they fought to hold together in the
1990s remains intact.[/quote]
Will the US learn how to be America again?
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