Bosniak narrative on Srebrenica and profit

At a time when part of the international community, with the help of Bosniak politicians, is trying to promote a resolution on Srebrenica on the world stage, the President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, has reminded us of a statement by academic and writer Muhamed Filipović, which clearly indicates who was interested in the war in BiH.

Filipović recounted events from the 1990s in an interview with Sarajevo media, where he went to negotiate with Slobodan Milošević. He was clear – the war in BiH could have been avoided.

International sympathizers and Bosniak politicians have for years constructed a narrative that the war in BiH began and was fought only in Srebrenica. The upcoming UN resolution attempts to compress the entire wartime events into a few days in July 1995. If they succeed, we can expect an official accusation of Serbs starting the war. However, the truth is that at the dusk of the dissolution of the common state, Muslim leader Alija Izetbegović rejected a historic agreement with the Serbs that would have guaranteed the territorial integrity of BiH within a truncated Yugoslavia. This was confirmed by Filipović in 2018.

“The agreement failed because someone from SDA called Adil Zulfikarpašić that evening, who spoke with Nikola Koljević regarding the agreement that Alija Izetbegović had agreed to. When Zulfikarpašić and Koljević began talking, a person came in with a telegram from the SDA central office stating that SDA does not accept any agreement with the Serbs. I asked at least ten times later ‘Alija, how is this possible, we could have avoided the war, we had no chance.’ Alija Izetbegović never wanted to tell me who did that,” Filipović said at the time.

Valuable is also the testimony of the former director of Sarajevo airport, Mile Jovičić, who, just before the conflict started, was told by then Deputy Prime Minister of RBiH Muhamed Čengić, in an excited voice, that a meeting of the narrow leadership of SDA had decided to go to war against the Serbs.

In March 1992, Izetbegović said:

“Maybe some chaos will ensue, I think it will, I’m not really sure it won’t, from which then a new state of affairs will emerge.”

How to reach these new relations was defined in the Directive of the Staff of the TO RBiH in April 1992, which clearly speaks about preparations for military conflicts with the JNA and Serb formations. When Alija Izetbegović refused the Cutileiro Plan for cantonization of Bosnia without war, it was clear that the Muslim leadership did not want peace. Izetbegović is also responsible for bringing mujahideen. Sarajevo criminals were promoted to generals. Still, the greatest responsibility he had was towards his own people whom he wanted to sacrifice in Srebrenica. This was once confirmed by Hakija Meholjić in the Norwegian documentary “Betrayed City.”

“Clinton offered me to let Chetniks into Srebrenica to slaughter 5,000 Muslims and there would be a NATO military intervention against Serb positions across BiH. What do you think about that? I jumped up and asked ‘are you crazy, who will say you to be slaughtered, you go, you to be slaughtered, you don't go‘. That’s what he said. There are only good and bad people in every nation, Alija is a bad man,” said Meholjić.

Bosniaks never forgave Meholjić for this statement, during his lifetime he was noticeably ignored just like Ibran Mustafić who publicly stated in court that the war commander of the so-called Army of BiH, Naser Orić, admitted to killing Serbs in Srebrenica. On the other hand, those who persist on the story of the Srebrenica “genocide” profit well. This was once confirmed by Munira Subašić, President of the Association of Mothers of Srebrenica.

“I have a tenant, a deputy minister who lives in my house, I have an income, believe it or not, nearly 4000 KM a month. And if I spent two, it would be enough for me to live like a lord, but believe it or not, I am dissatisfied,” Subašić said for FTV in 2010.

Former member of the Presidency of RBiH, who stayed in Sarajevo until mid-1992, professor Nenad Kecmanović says about Alija Izetbegović that he accepted, then refused, signed, and sabotaged agreements. If it hadn’t been like that, says Kecmanović, there would have been no war or it would have ended a year or two earlier, which would have saved thousands of lives on all three sides.

Source: RTRS