THE INFLUENCE OF GENOCIDE ON BOSNIAKS ON
DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES IN SREBRENICA AND BRATUNAC
FROM 1991 TO 2021 Cover Image

Utjecaj genocida nad Bošnjacima na demografske promjene u Srebrenici i Brtuncu 1991-2021.
THE INFLUENCE OF GENOCIDE ON BOSNIAKS ON DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES IN SREBRENICA AND BRATUNAC FROM 1991 TO 2021

Author(s): Muamer Džananović
Subject(s): Studies in violence and power, Demography and human biology, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: JU Zavod za zaštitu i korištenje kulturno-historijskog i prirodnog naslijeđa
Keywords: Greater Serbia ideology; ethnic cleansing; genocide; violent demographic change; discrimination against returnees; Bratunac Srebrenica; 1992 1995;

Summary/Abstract: The basic thesis of this paper starts from the fact that the crimes committed against the Bosniaks of Podrinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina,more specifically in the municipalities of Srebrenica and Bratunac, in the period 1992-1995 are an integral part of the Greater Serbia genocide against Bosniaks, which they have been continuously carrying out in stages for over two centuries. That, due to the Greater Serbia genocidal ideology,politics and practice, Bosnian society was destroyed and ties between cultures“were broken”, although for centuries “mixed” and formed a “unity of differences”, we will prove by comparing the demographic picture of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with special focus to Srebrenica and Bratunac, analyzing the last two censuses.Also, the denial of genocide against Bosniaks and the celebration of crimes and criminals, by followers of the Greater Serbia ideology, is very relevant since the end of the aggression until today. Frequent physical attacks on Bosniak returnees, threats and discrimination in various fields, especially in negation of identity characteristics of Bosniaks and their constant propaganda dehumanization also has a negative effect on the relatively few Bosniak returnees who have returned to their homes. All of the above results in the departure of the biologically productive population, and the remaining“elderly” households, thus continuing the process of “ethnic cleansing” of Bosniaks in Bratunac and Srebrenica, twenty-six years after the aggression and genocide, is still being conducted and is nearing its completion

  • Issue Year: 10/2021
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 131-155
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Bosnian
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