Priceless Lesson from Srebrenica
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Srebrenica as a part of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been an essential land for Yugoslavia because of the location is at the border of both of them. Croatia and Slovenia were separating themselves from Yugoslavia because the whole of personnel government in the country has been taken by Serbians whereby Bosnia and Herzegovina also want secession. Aftermath the declaration of Bosnia and Herzegovina independency in 1922 is the madness and ravenous to keep the land within Yugoslavian governments. Moreover, the disengagement from Yugoslavia has created massive disagreement from Serbians in of Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, Muslim Bosnians or Bosniaks and Croate Bosnians in Bosnia and Herzegovina have the same argument regarding the leadership system should include diverse people from different ethnicity and all of the structure should not be control by Serbians since Bosnia and Herzegovina has multiple races. Nevertheless, war has been held in order to gain the land of Bosnian people. The result of continues war is one of the most tragic events for Bosnians or the Srebrenica genocide in 1995. The military officer of Vojska Republike Srpske, Ratko Mladic has been announced Srebrenica area as a gift for Serbians even though they knew the land is deemed as green zone under the UN protection.
Although Bosnian civilians have international guardian provided by UN, the amount of troops they need to handle by VRS is immeasurable. Furthermore, the lack of food supplies was made UN soldiers felt exhausted to control the current situation in Srebrenica. Dutch combatants under the name of UN were calling for assistance due to VRS military power is going to demolish indigenous folks, yet the headquarters cannot give them additional warriors due to inoperable transportation or in particular because of their planes have not been filled with fuel. Consequently, UN soldiers had no choice except for escaping Srebrenica because the hindrance has been blanketed them by fighting against soldiers of Republic Srpska nor lack of food for Bosnian people. Unfortunately, UN’s troops were leaving Srebrenica without shooting any single bullet of resistance for protecting innocent civilians. On the other day, many people at the time were seeking help at UN’s establishment but they only found an empty building without people. Up till this point, VRS soldiers have been succeed to go through Srebrenica smoothly and made the enormous incident which we never ever forget.
Mass graves have been discovered by the time goes fly and everyone starts to identified their relatives. Many parts of limbs could be found separated from different cemetery because VRS personnel have been frequently removed the evidence. Beside of the dead bodies have been exposed, sometimes Bosnians think to watch their steps since they do not know what beneath the soil or maybe they will get trample by somebody’s bones. However, the horrible incident has been taken away 8.372 Muslim Bosnian men and boys. Many people would estimate the number of casualties is reached more than 10.700 because it does not include unrecognizable nor missing people whether people who got executed in massive slaughter or civilians whom not made it to Tuzla due to shot at the present time. Furthermore, somebody cannot claim the discovered bodies without any direct root of family; Thereby, it becomes a problem for identifying because what if a whole family was terminated during the genocide. Nevertheless, the Srebrenica massacre has been labelled as a genocide and the largest killing after the Second World War. Dozens of people sentenced for years due to massive murder of Bosnian men and boys, sexual harassment towards Bosnian women, and the expel of indigenous people from their home. The president of Republic Srpska during Srebrenica genocide, Radovan Karadzic and the military officer, Ratko Mladic have been life sentenced in 2016 and 2017. Beside of the justice for Bosniaks has been given to them, many of the indigenous people would argue regarding the core reasons why Republic of Srpska with the assistance of Yugoslavia was brutally slaughtering Muslim Bosnians in such a short time.
Women, children under the age 12, and older Bosnians were being separated from Men on 11 July 1995. VRS was using busses in order to move civilians. Thereafter, some of the transportation went missing but most of them are safely landed in Kladanj, Tuzla, or other safety places. Hundreds of women have been reported got raped during the genocide. On the other side of fence, men and boys on the age of fighting were being hunted as if prey for Republic of Srpska soldiers. Muslim Bosnian male were being announced to out of their hidden place by convincing them they will not be harm. Thereby, most of the indigenous people were surrounding the pint point area; Thereafter, VRS combatants were embarked to massively annihilate unarmed people on 11-19 July 1995. VRS troops were blindfolding folks nor lining up and shooting them one by one. The victims were knowing their neighbors got shot because it happens next to them. A father has been filmed, he received order to yell his son’s name in order to allure the child from his secret place. On the other hand, rumor said VRS soldiers were using weapons who have been neglected by UN personnel. Furthermore, Yugoslavia military members were using grenades, machine guns, and sharp tools for mutilating Bosnians’ body merely because they got “bored”. In spite of the cruelty of the way they terminate Bosnian civilians, some of the men nor boys were running to Tuzla where Bosnia and Herzegovina’s military protection was focused. From 15.000 men and boys, only 3.000 made it to Tuzla or other places to gain protection. In other words, most of them were went missing nor got murdered in some places in Srebrenica and their bodies never be found till this day. Nevertheless, the Bosnian dead bodies were being buried carelessly by stacking them. As a result, the mass murder of indigenous people in Srebrenica has been causing trauma till this day.
The Srebrenica Genocide is an obvious ethnic cleansing due to targeting particular race and religion which was Bosniaks. Majority of Serbs whether in Yugoslavia or Republic of Srpska are Orthodox Christians; Thereby, they want intentionally wiping out Muslims in Europe because of inherent engagement between the word Muslim and immigrants. Moreover, some of the Europeans would think Muslims are not belong in their land. Even though the majority of people in Europe are non-Muslim, they need to start acknowledge the existence of Muslim Europeans such as Bosniaks. It was devastated when VRS troops were murdering people with the same broad bloodline with them as Europeans. Both of them are the same with difference beliefs, yet their faith regarding they are higher than anybody else was corrupting the morality within themselves. Consequently, Serbs will alter Bosniaks merely as a number and it was an obligation from God to execute innocent Muslim Bosnians. The “prices” were subconsciously being the fuel to fulfill Serbs’ hearth with the destruction of humanity.
Bosniaks men and boys have been slaughtered due to preventing Islam to grow in Europe. Furthermore, the ravenous within Yugoslavia and especially Republic of Srpska has been rapidly corrupted the morality in their mind nor hearth. The hatred towards other ethnicity was fulfilling Bosnia and Herzegovina’s land with blood from their own people. The massacre has been cut the future of many Bosniak women such as Hatidza Mehmesovic, the survival of Srebrenica Genocide. “I will never be a mother again. I will never have a grandchild. I will never have a son. I will not know that kind of joy. I will never expect wedding guests. But I feel that every grandchild is also mine” said Hatidza Mehmesovic on Al Jazeera interview. Some of the victims who never be found are getting disremembered for their existence on earth because of the atrocities. Best belief, the world will never forget all of the victims and survivors of Srebrenica Genocide in 1995. Speaking about genocide, Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank have been struggling with it since 1948 and yet some of the people still denied the genocide. Will the humanity save indigenous civilians in Palestine or they will once again fail to protect them.