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"How The Genocide In Srebrenica Became A Model For Global Far-Right Terror
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More than 8.300 Bosniaks were killed in Srebrenica in 1995, and today international far-right extremists are turning the criminals from that time into heroes, and portraying the genocide as a supposed 'defense of Europe.'
Emir Suljagic, genocide survivor and director of the Srebrenica Memorial Center, said in an interview: 'We must not forget that Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) was the first testing ground for the global far right.'
According to media reports, neo-Nazis from across Europe traveled to BiH during the war in order, as the current general secretary of the NPD (Heimat) party later said, 'to kill Muslims.'
The connection between Serbian nationalism and global far-right terrorism has not disappeared. On the contrary, Serbian nationalism, along with the denial and glorification of the genocide in Srebrenica, is today a central narrative of the international far right.
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Radovan Karadzic, co-responsible and convicted for war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity, later called the genocide 'just and holy,' and a defense against an alleged 'Islamic caliphate.' For followers of that ideology, the murderers are heroes who defended the European continent and tried to preserve the 'Christian heritage.' The war in BiH, in which more than 100.000 people died, in that distorted narrative becomes a symbolic battle between Christianity and Islam.
The myth of the Christian 'Fortress'
Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik said during his trial a significant sentence: 'If the far right in Europe ever succeeds again, it must distance itself from the ideas of the old school.' By 'old school,' he meant National Socialism. At the same time, he called for the creation of a 'new identity.'
That new identity is reflected in his manifesto. In it, he mentioned Kosovo 143 times, Serbia 341 times, Albania 208 times, and BiH 232 times. In Breivik’s vision of Southeast Europe, 'Serbs' fight against 'Muslims' to 'liberate' the European continent from them. Breivik was particularly fascinated by how Karadzic presented the war in BiH to the West – in his logic, BiH was an 'unnatural' society because it was multicultural.
It is pointed out that Bosniaks were also subjected to slaughter in the past, during World War II, when Serbian Nazi collaborators tried to annihilate them. But in that ideology, the victims of genocide are mocked, their murder relativized, denied, or portrayed as self-defense."
https://sarajevotimes.com/how-the-genocide-in-srebrenica-became-a-model-for-global-far-right-terror/
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