Crimes Against Bosniaks in Srebrenica During the Second World War from 1941 till 1945
Crimes against Bosniaks in Srebrenica during the second world war from 1941 till 1945

Summary/Abstract: The end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century marked the beginning of a terrible period of suffering and monstrous crimes committed against Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina. That time is, in fact, the time of realization of the ideology, policy and practice of creating ethnically pure Serbian territories on the territory of the Balkan Peninsula. The ultimate goal of such efforts and implementers of such an ideology was and remains the creation of an ethnically pure Serbian state, the so-called of Greater Serbia. The monstrosity, horror, bestiality, cruelty and ferocity of the realization of such a malicious ideology were most felt by Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina is/was targeted as an indispensable and imperative territory of an ethnically pure Serbian state. A special focus of Greater Serbian ideologues was and remains the area of Podrinje, i.e. the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina along the Drina River (west of the Drina River). This area was marked by Greater Serbian ideologues as the most important geostrategic area of the future “Greater Serbia”, and the Drina River was mythologized and declared the “backbone of the Serbian people”, the “aorta of Serbianness”. The malice of such efforts has been demonstrated by the example of cities throughout the Podrinje, including the city of Srebrenica. Srebrenica, like other Bosnian cities in the Podrinje region, was targeted as a territory of “exceptional strategic importance” for a “final solution to the Serbian question” in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This was impossible to realize without committing numerous crimes against humanity and international law against Bosniaks, including genocide. The culmination of these crimes against Bosniaks in Srebrenica occurred during World War II in the period of 1941-1945, as well as during the aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period of 1992-1995. It can be reasonably claimed that the crimes and genocide committed against Bosniaks in Srebrenica during the Second World War were an overture to later even more horrific and greater crimes and genocide during the aggression against 260 the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosniaks in the Srebrenica area were targeted as targets of the Greater Serbia ideology during the Second World War, and this is confirmed by the mass and individual crimes committed by the bearers of that ideology (Chetniks). In proving the above theses, all basic methods were used, then general scientific methods (hypothetical-deductive, comparative and statistical), while for the purposes of obtaining data, the analysis (content) of documents and the case study method were used. The results of the research are a relevant indicator of horrific crimes, including the crime of genocide committed against Bosniaks in Srebrenica during the World War II and the efforts of Greater Serbia ideologues to completely ethnically cleanse the city of non-Serbs. The results of this research are a good starting point and starting point in the description, elaboration and presentation of the continuity of crimes committed against Bosniaks in Srebrenica, all the way to the genocide committed during the 1992-1995 aggression.

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