I am including you guys because you were included in the original post with videos, and I do not know how many people watched the videos. I did, below are my observations.
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Bosnian conflict April 92 - Dec 95
I have to say I am extremely disappointed, I was expecting some sort of an awakening moment, or at the very least new reasoned arguments. I did not find any. I have highlighted the shortcomings with regards to each of the videos you posted.
* First video
This video mostly consists of points created by someone with an axe to grind, peddling a prejudiced viewpoint. According to this so called researched video;
The Serbs did not want to be run by an Islamic extremist government, and the Islamic fundamentalist fighters started the war >> There was zero chance of an Islamic government of any kind in Bosnia at that time, it doesn’t even exist now, after decades of Muslim influence. Islam was not a major factor and neither did it hold any significant influence at the time.
The Muslims fighters only came on the scene after the conflict had already started, with the active backing of Serbia and Croatia towards their respective groups. Those fighters went there to support the Bosnians, just like Orthodox and Catholic fighters went to support their side. So the claim that Islam was a factor is utterly ridiculous and a complete lie. In-fact it shows the Islamophobic agenda of this documentary.
In an interview a doctor was asked if
“anyone had died in this camp” the answer was
“no, just an old man because there was a lack of medicine” >> so in a refugee/prisoner camp, call it what you want, the only person to die was an old man due to lack of medication, it was all hunky dory, I mean really? it sounds like heaven where no one dies, it was all perfect.
In another interview, a respondent said that
“no-one provided aid, there are no foreign organisations providing any help, all the aid is coming from Serbia” >> so all the international aid effort was just for show, right? The world is evil who did nothing to help, but Serbia was the great saviour that came to the assistance of the Bosniaks, how can anyone believe such silly claims/propaganda. I’m sorry, but this is just unbelievable.
A large portion of the film was about the thin/starving man and how his picture was misrepresented, it was also claimed that
“Mr Alic, the man was thin because of a childhood condition”, really? So it had nothing to do with any suffering in the camp, but he was suffering from a childhood illness that left him in that condition. Please find below his picture at the time, and a recent picture in his old age. Looks like his so called illness disappeared because he looks very healthy and bulky, he looks better in old age, then in the prime of his youth.
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Picking on isolated points to paint a bigger picture is not a good way to build an argument. It doesn’t amount to much, because the sheer amount of evidence that exist to prove Bosnian Muslims genocide is indisputable. You can argue by highlighting few points, but it can’t amount to denial of what took place. 81.3% of civilian deaths were Bosniaks, it was a structured and organised genocide of Bosnian Muslims, with the active support of Serbia and Croatia. Muslim foreign players entered after the extreme suffering of Bosniaks was already taking place.
If we were to believe the claims in this video, there was no massacre of Bosniaks,
Serbs were angels helping everyone and, they did no wrong. The world is telling nothing but lies, seriously?
This video is as believable as the flat earth theory, no moon landing claims, and at the same level as the holocaust deniers. Each of those claims have their own logic, but that does not make them true.
The evidence regarding the genocide of Bosniak people is indisputable.
* Second video
Why are they constantly referring to Bosniaks only as Muslim, but Serbs are Serbs, not Orthodox Christians. Croats are Croats, not Catholic Christians. That is extremely biased reporting. The Bosniak identity is a recognise ethnic group, and they are proud of their ethnicity, then why only refer to them as Muslims, unless it is to feed inbuilt European fear-mongering against them, that’s sad and wrong.
There is nothing unusual or shocking in this video, it points towards possible killings done by Bosnian forces. But the Bosniak they interviewed admitted it, but also clarified that it was soldiers killing soldiers. something I have already said that there will be killing in a war. The fact is 81.3% of civilian deaths were Bosniaks, 10.9% Serbs and 8.3% Croats. When over 81% of victims are from a single community, that very clearly says there was a systematic and organised genocide of that community.
The soldier deaths were more balanced, which points to the truth of that interview with the Bosniak soldier they were blaming. Bosniaks targeted soldiers, in the process civilians also got killed, it is unfair to make exaggerated claims.
Civilian deaths
Bosniaks 81.3%
Serbs 10.9%
Croats 8.3%
Soldier deaths
Bosniaks 53.6%
Serbs 36%
Croats 10.3%
There is also a silly emphasis on so-called arms smuggling to the Bosnian forces, but no mention of Serb and Croat forces being provided weapons and fully supported by Serbia and Croatia. Is the assumption that it is OK for the Serbs and Croats to be provided external support, throughout the war, but if the Bosnians are given arms for their defence, it is wrong, isn’t this a silly hypocritical claim.
* Third video
This starts by referring to a meeting of foreign Muslim fighters in 1995, that’s towards the end of the war. What is so shocking about this?
Why is this even news? By then it is well known that Muslim volunteers went to the aid of Bosnians.
Just like the Russians, Greeks and other Orthodox Christians fought for the Serbs.
And, Catholic volunteers from different European countries fought for the Croats.
I do not understand the point of this video, unless to spread Islamophobia.
It’s OK for Serbs to receive massive help from Serbia and Orthodox Christian groups and individuals. It’s OK for Croats to receive help from Catholic Christian volunteers and groups as well as Croatia. But it is not OK for the Bosnians to get any help, that’s a ridiculous claim, the Bosniak were getting massacred, they needed help more then anyone else.
The Bosniak help is being painted as a religious war, but the Serb and Croat help, which was also religiously motivated has no religious connotations, if this isn’t the height of hypocrisy then I don’t know what is.
* Forth video
There is nothing that deals with the genocide of Bosniak people, or the conduct of the war, it just presents an argument on why it started and such things, which are not relevant to the discussion in this thread. The if’s and but’s are theoretical arguments. This thread is about the effects and the brutality of the Bosnian conflict.
It is unfair to use videos to reinforce exiting prejudices. Every message/argument has to stand the test of reasonableness, just because someone makes a video, that does not mean they have uncovered a hidden truth.
Their message has to make sense, it has to be fair, and based on balanced facts, these video do nothing except try to peddle misinformed lies, that is sad and unfair.
As I previously mentioned, if you feel that some Bosniaks or Muslim volunteers were involved in unlawful killings, and they were not punished, and should have been, then I agree, they should have been punished. But, I am sure there are a lot of Serbs or Croats and their volunteers who should also have been punished, but were not punished. But, these videos do not deal with those issue.
Please remember, that any assumed unlawful killings cannot and do not eliminate the genocide of the Bosnian Muslims, they suffered, it is wrong to deny facts of history, or equalise their suffering with Serbs or Croats.
81.3% of civilian deaths were Bosniak, the rest Serbs and Croats. It cannot be compared, it is wrong to attempt such a thing.