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Tags: "Dušanovo", Ahmed E. Hrustanović, Bosnia, Bosnian Muslims, Bosnians, Musa-paša Mosque, Nova Kasaba, Republika Srpska, Serbia, Serbs, Srebrenica
What happened in Bosnia in the 90s was “a posthumous triumph” for the vicious fascism of the Croatian Ustaše, and Bosnians’ gleeful collaboration with them on both occasions.
Honestly…if anybody can explain to me because I find it baffling. What was in it for Bosnians to collaborate with Croats during both WWII and the wars of the 90s? What could possibly have been of more benefit for them to work together with the Ustaše instead of joining Serbian partisan resistance or just sitting out the conflict? Wasn’t the virulent Catholicism of the Ustaše enough to put them off? Did they just figure that Serbs were the previously and potentially again most hegemonic people in the state so they sought help from another little brother? Did they really think that after accomplishing their stated aims of cleansing the NDH of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies, that Croat fascists wouldn’t come after Bosnian Muslims next? Like Martin Niemöller’s poem: “Then they came for me.” And Bosnian’s chumming up with them in the 90s: how’s that worked out for you, guys?
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Tags: Bosnia, Bosnian Muslims, Catholicism, Croatia, Croatian, Croats, Gypsies, Jews, Martin Niemöller, NDH, Serbian Partisans, Serbians, Serbs, Ustaše, WWII
-- Murtaza Muhammad Hussein (quoted above) is a journalist I respect immensely whose work focuses on national security, foreign policy, and human rights. His work has previously been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, and Al Jazeera English.
(See more of M.M. Hussein @theintercept)
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FROM BOSNIA TO BENGAL -- The purpose of this blog
Me, I'm Nicholas Bakos, a.k.a. "NikoBako." I'm Greek (Roman really, but when I say that in English some five people in the world today understand what I'm talking about, so I use "Greek" for shorthand). I'm from New York. I live all over the place these days. The rest should become obvious from the blog.
See "JADDE: THE MISSION AND STARTING OFF, the blog's first entry below, and JADDE: THE NAME OF THIS BLOG for my general agenda:
"What I hope this blog accomplishes is to create even the tiniest amount of common consciousness among readers from the parts of the world in question."
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