Genocide Against Bosniaks and Serbian Identity After 1995
Genocide Against Bosniaks and Serbian Identity After 1995
Author(s): Rasim MuratovićSubject(s): Studies in violence and power, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: JU Zavod za zaštitu i korištenje kulturno-historijskog i prirodnog naslijeđa
Keywords: Bosnia; Bosniaks; genocide; identity; ideology; nation; state; evil;
Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the presence of genocide and the persistent threat and possibility of its new eruption in Bosnia. Statements about this, not only in public policies, are dangerous but their more or less subtle involvement in educational programs guarantees the mentioned possibility of a new eruption in the future. Bosniaks are usually advised with bad intentions to look ahead and not inwards as a kind of sleeping pill, i.e. anesthesia before amputation. The paper discusses what to do with Serbian ethno-religious nationalism in this context? What kind of ideology is that? What is the Serbian identity like after 1995? How are the contrasts between “us” and “them” painted, and what should be the response of Bosniaks to such challenges? What to do next and how to move on?
Journal: Monumenta Srebrenica
- Issue Year: 10/2021
- Issue No: 10
- Page Range: 79-86
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English
