10 steps Serbia took to commit genocide in Srebrenica

The following article, Al-Jazeera, translates Periscope.

In the 1990 ' s, American student Gregory H Stanton examined the steps of genocide that later came to be known as the concept of 10 steps of genocide.

Genocide is not performed by a small group of people or individually. A large number of people as well as the state are pushing the genocide.

If steps were taken to stop one of his stairs, then the chain leading to the final genocide would be broken, says Gregory Stanton.

Based on this theory, Bosnian-australyan anthropologist Haris Halilovic has made an extension of the theory that Stanton, adding another step to the genocide plan, that of the 11th one he calls PuertoUTumfalism, and that later, we will see that means the ʹtriumfin of the genocide perpetrators, or when they are seen as heroes in their country.

Here are 11 steps that were followed in the Sreberenica genocide, according to Hariz Halilovic:

SUCH 1,2.3: K LASIFISM, SIMBOLISM AND DISCKRING

The idea of Greater Serbia included territories other than Bosnia: it included Kosovo, Croatia, Montenegro but also targeted other neighbouring countries of Serbia and dates back to the death of Yugoslavia's leader Josip Broz Tito in 1980.

Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Serbian nationalists saw a good chance to mobilise measures to start building a Serbian homogeny state.

In Slobodan Milosevic's famous speech in Belgrade in 1989, he presents himself as Serbia's savior. He divides like: We [Serbs] and others.

Bosnians were identified as {Turks” and Balije) (a staining term referring to Muslim axes) and identified them as Islamic terrorists or Christians.

SUCH 4: DEHUMANIATION

Many Serbs referred to Bosniaks as people threatening Serbia's homegenative project.

“In order to mobilise measures against the Muslims and reason on their future actions against them in the eyes of the West, the Serbian leadership needed to create an image of a totalitarian Islam, that caused violence and negatively impacted the country's European culture”, writes Sarajevo University professor Fikret Karcic, in publication: “Deforestation of image of Islam: case of former Yugoslavia”

“Such a distorted image has been promoted by influential figures in Serbia, in the Orthodox Church and by some historians”, it continues.

SUCH 5: OGGANIZING

The plan to destroy Bosnia and BiH (s) completely cleansed by its Muslim people had been made since 1980 by Yugoslavia's Army General Staff, according to Vladimir Srebrov, a politician linked to war criminal Radovan Karadzic.

Known as the Plan RAM, he predicted to make Bosnia part of Greater Serbia. In this plan, officers participated in their ideas, the kind of artillery that had to be used, ammunition and the entire team that had to be deployed at strategic points of Croatia and Bosnia.

Under the plan, a secret police force had to be formed in order to plan the entire training of local Serbs and their weapons in order to create paramilitary units in Bosnia. Also, the document that exists in writing was designed to create special expert units that would engage in psychological warfare, underlining that “this would be the most effective way to spread panic among the Bosnian people” and that included the rape of women, youth and children”.

FALSE 6: POLIZING

Serbian and Bosnian media repeatedly published propaganda information to dehumanise victims and marginalise the opposition war in Bosnia.

For example, it happened on a occasion when until Serbian forces kept Sarajevo in state-of-state, a Belgrade-based television television was spreading hate languages, thus warning: Muslim extremists are coming with the most inhumane methods of tormenting people. Last night, they sent a few children to the city zoo and kept them in front of a lion”.

This was reported in the morning news, and it was one of the news reports that had reached millions of surveys.

SUCH 7: DEPATION

Belgrade had organised weapons distribution to the Serb population in Bosnia in 1990 and 1991.

“Armer and the combat team were also sent with Serbian Army helicopters. It is said that there were almost no houses owned by Serb residents who were not armed with”, the UN reported in 1994.

That's why it was written in this UN report”

The prefix for the distribution of these weapons was largely made by saying that they were necessary for protection from enemies of the Muslim extremists”.

SHOWAH 8: P ERSECTION

In Bosnia the persecution of Bosnian intellectuals, whose names were on a list and all had been executed, had begun. When Serb troops had arrived, their target was non-Serb populations, tortured and killed them.

About 500,000 Bosnian and Croat women, girls and children, have been raped in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995.

In the western Bosnian town of Prijedor, Bosniaks had been forced to place some white strips in their hands so that their ethnic affiliation could be identified.

Throughout the country, 200,000 people had been deported to concentration camps. They were tortured and then killed...

Many others were used as shields in Sarajevo and Mostar, after which sniper killings were killed.

Srebrenica, known as the largest concentration camp, was under siege for three years until July 1995.

Serbian troops separated men and boys from women; between the ages of 12 and 77, were half the populations. They took them to fields, schools, and executed them.

JULY 9: EFFECTION

On July 11th, General Ratko Mladic, at 16:15 (now declared as a war criminal, entered Srebrenica with Serbian forces, including paramilitary units from Serbia, and said in front of the cameras that the city was now for Serbs (Serbs). Walking in the streets of Sarajevo with a camera in her hand, Mladiq claimed it was revenge against ukbalijave.

This sparked panic among those who had escaped and survived, hundreds of Bosnian boys created an escape line from the country, forming a 100km column in an effort to get into the region controlled by the Bosnian Army.

This journey of theirs, known as Death March” because they were shot by Serb forces behind their backs. Less than half of them survived.

For six days, more than 8,000 Bosniaks were killed. Women and children were deported.

SUCH 10: MOHING

In an effort to cover the killings, Serbian forces transported dead bodies with bolts and trucks, burying them in several locations. They made sure that the families of the slain could not even bury them by distributing their body parts to various locations.

According to an Al Jazeera poll conducted in 2018, 66 percent of Serbs in Republika Srpaska deny genocide.

Denying genocide in Srebrenica is also known in academic and political circles in Republika Srpska and Serbia.

Genocide is also denied today by politicians like Milorad Dodik, by Serbian Prime Minister Anna Brnabyq, but also by other political figures in Serbia.

“ [Denying] is one of the main elements of genocide massacres”, Stanton says.

SUNDAY 11: TRIUMPALIMSIA

War criminals today are respected and as heroes of war. According to a survey in 2018, 74 percent of Serbs in Republika Srpska consider Radovan Karadzic, the war criminal, and the responsible for genocide in Srebrenica as the elsewhere. /Al Jazeera/Periscope/