Mother and Child in the Crime of Genocide Against Bosniaks
Mother and Child in the Crime of Genocide Against Bosniaks

Summary/Abstract: The genocide verdict against Bosniaks of the UN Protected Area Srebrenica, before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the verdicts of German courts (Higher Regional Court in Dusseldorf), the crimes of genocide in Doboj and other places in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the verdicts of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina are paradigmatic evidence of genocidal destruction of Bosniaks, because the analysis of specific socio-historical processes, in the form of national liberation movements and nation-building in South Slavic and wider Balkan areas, continuously, as an integral part of them, genocide against Bosniaks took place. There is a lot of evidence of genocide against Bosniaks that are explicit and unquestionable as social, historical and legal facts, but one of them stands out and that is the genocide against a mother and a child as sources of holiness of life. In this paper, we will work on concrete sociohistorical examples of the suffering of mothers and children in the genocide against Bosniaks from the beginning of the so-called “National liberation movements” in the early 19th century, through the Balkan Wars, the First and Second World Wars, to the war against Bosnian society and the state in the period of 1992-1995 using only relevant theoretical and methodological postulates, to prove and show that the last genocide against Bosniaks in Srebrenica, in July 1995, was not an individual and isolated case of genocidal extermination of Bosniaks but, on the contrary, a paradigmatic example, i.e. a part of continuous genocide, as a means of “national liberation movements” from the neighborhood of Bosnia and Herzegovina, derived according to the Jacobin formula “one state-one (ethnic) community.” By analyzing the suffering of mothers and children in the genocide against Bosniaks, we will open the question of ruling false narratives (historical, political, “cultural” and others), about national liberation movements from the position of the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as progressive civilizational achievements.

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