The Bosnian Genocide: Europe’s Only Genocide Since WWII

[@katexy7179]

I'm Bosnian, and the worst thing about this war and genocide is about how fresh it all is. My mother's best friend is a woman who came from a Srebrenica concentration camp. She was there when she was only 17, and while she never tells anything, she's a skinny woman with a ton of health problems, most of which center around PTSD and female reproductive organs. She says often "whatever I've lived through, it would have been fine if any of my brothers or my parents survived". Another mom's friend is from Brcko, a small city northeast of Bosnia. She was in a concentration camp too, and, same as the previous one, has a ton of similar health problems. At least she has her brother alive, she says. Neither of them can have children. You will notice that most of the victims of the genocide are men, and it might confuse you. Indeed, most men killed, especially in Srebrenica, were young, capable men. These men, however, were wholly unprepared, had no weapons, and were indeed civillians. As to why mostly men were targeted? Well, see, in Bosnia and Serbia alike, back in the 80s and 90s, the family line would continue by the male children, while girls would be married off into another family line- and when she does marry, she takes the surname of the new family, and completely moves into that family, calling her husband's parents her own (yes this is patriarchy at its finest, and it's changing a lot nowadays, but back then this was the case in most families). "Purity" before marriage was a big concept as well. So basically the plan was: kill off all the men and boys so the family line doesn't continue, assaulting girls for the fun of it, but also if she becomes pregnant, how great, she'll bear a Serbian child. Boys as young as 12 were killed, and many were saved only because their mothers managed to pass them off as girls somehow. "Pure" girls also were preferred by the soldiers, so they favored unmarried women. Women typically married at the age of 17-20 back then, especially in more rural places. There are only rare accounts of what women went through in this war, because of the shame culture- and when I say rare, I only ever heard of 3-4 from the entire country. One thing that Simon didn't mention is how, after the Srebrenica genocide in particular, there was a huge action by Serb military forces to cover up their traces, so they took some trucks and tried to scatter around the mass grave sites, to make the bodies more difficult to find. Years later, when the excavations started to give the victims a proper religious burial, bones of one individual person would be found in multiple mass graves. Some people would be buried with only a few bones, the rest of the body never found. I'd still like to point out, as a Bosnian, I feel like it's a responsibility of mine as well, that very little of what modern day Serbia and Bosnian Serbs are is responsible for this. Yes, there are still plenty of criminals who were never convicted, but outside of that, Serbia is a beautiful country and Serbs are generally hospitable people. It feels like whenever we talk about this, we have to preface that there is a difference between violent criminals and normal people who live in Serbia today, but this has to be mentioned and repeated. Serbia does not equal evil.

[@phaedrapage4217]

The little news coverage that made it all the way to Iowa deeply affected me. Seeing images of children who had never known a normal safe life especially. It made me wish I could scoop them all up in my arms and keep them safe. Thoughts like this still keep me awake at night if I don't take sleeping pills. All the little ones around the world who have never known what I took for granted growing up is so heartbreaking. I mean, the atrocities adults are subjected to disturb me as well but with the children it hits deeper, I guess. Hope that makes sense?

[@robertharrington703]

I know you don't need patronising from me, but thank you for sharing this perspective.

[@AncientRylanor69]

thanks

[@AncientRylanor69]

thanks

[@naj2120]

A woman taking her husband's family's name doesn't seem like patriarchy to me, or if it is it isn't automatically negative. The rest of that information is very important and interesting, so thank you for that also.

[@StainsStainsStains]

"Never again.. except for all the times it will happen again. But after those... never again!"

[@sentinel_Alphacentauri]

It's more like again and again and again...11,000+ civilians murdered in Ukraine by Putin , 30,000+ dead in Gaza and Israel

[@dylan-5287]

These days we don't just ignore them, we literally fund them lmao.

[@JoeC92]

​@@dylan-5287you'd think after the Holocaust, Rwanda, Bosnia and all the others we'd know a genocide right at the start but nope. The US is currently helping fund one in Palestine.

[@TizBaz5]

@dylan-5287 do yourself a favor and watch the video. You will learn what an actual genocide looks like.

[@dylan-5287]

@@TizBaz5 were gatekeeping genocides now? Certainly the scope can vary wildly.

[@theconfused_fisherman]

Amazing how an individual killing an individual will get them life in prison but this guy only got 40 years for killing over 30k

[@VersusARCH]

And how long should have Lyndon B Johnson and Richard Nixon been convicted to rot in prison for killing 2 million in Vietnam?

[@Persy-or1zt]

Yes

[@ey67]

It's almost like Courts are corrupt. Kinda like our USA courts 😮

[@nicoleshwartz6537]

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[@batsky6061]

Laws mostly apply to poor people

[@lynnbrooklyn1332]

I remember being in middle school and learning about it on the news. It’s amazing how often we say “never again” and it happens again somewhere else within a decade.

[@nicolavanrhyn1726]

Exactly! In high school we were in history class talking about the Holocaust but yet... it happens again.

[@meganbaker9116]

@@nicolavanrhyn1726Yes, it’s happening right now in Palestine with the full blessing and weapons of the United States, Britain and Germany. This video is only 8 months old, but this guy has not a thing to say about that. Does he think “Never again” is just for white people? Or just never again directly on European soil?

[@LiftingStress]

@@meganbaker9116 He won't make a video on Gaza until it's popular and undeniable.

[@12neverland]

I was born in Srebrenica in 1994. The majority of my male family members were killed, including my father, grandfather, and three uncles. Even those who survived are still scarred to this day. The life was never the same for them, and it will never be.

[@LunarWolf-H8]

И треба,заслужили су сепаратистичка стокоо.

[@Wolf-2210]

​@@LunarWolf-H8I'm not Bosnian but let me tell you something. Those serb war criminals are rotting in jail and Bosnia gained independence. I'm happy for justice.

[@LunarWolf-H8]

@@Wolf-2210 you're not because you're brainwashed. We stopped another muslim state in Europe and another genoide against us on our soil. And they were the ones to start it and play the victim later. They had jihadist squads and camps for Serbs

[@Skeks_s]

Never be afraid to tell your story. Thank you for sharing this comment. It's a tragedy that you even can...but evil will always rise - good can curb it by remembering history and speaking up: quench the embers of hate before they burn people.

[@Skeks_s]

@@LunarWolf-H8 That you feel this way is sad - we're all brothers and sisters on this planet. Don't let ideology turn you into a perpetrator of hate. You can be so much more than that. But this line of thinking just reduces you into insignificance.

[@randomperson6433]

A friend of mine lived through it. She’s one of the kindest souls I know despite the horror. So much respect for her and her people.

[@NICOLAI_VET]

I saw it. Smelled it. My first deployment was to Bosnia in 1994. I've seen everything evil humans will do to. eachother. I've been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since. But my experiences in Bosnia has scarred me forever.

[@shinren_]

So why deploy again to afghanistan and iraq? The same thing happened there but instead you guys were the bad guys

[@NICOLAI_VET]

@@shinren_ In Iraq and Afghanistan it was a shooting war. That's easy. Being a UN soldier and having to watch neighbours rape, burn and displace each other because of religion, ethnicity and ancient grievances is horrible.

[@shinren_]

@@NICOLAI_VET grape happened in iraq too because of american soldiers villages got bombed that had nothing to do with the war a lot of atrocities commited in those countries too by the west

[@AllBetzOff]

@@shinren_yeah, you are right, but this is their perspective not yours.

[@NICOLAI_VET]

@@shinren_ Iraq and Afghanistan were failures. We should never have tried to push our way life down on the Iraqi or the Afghan people. But everything is crystal clear in hindsight. I fought the wars my government told me to. I have no regrets.

[@FarkOSRS]

My dad was being loaded onto one of those school buses when one of the guards told him not to get on. It was his childhood best friend. he spent about 6 months in one of the camps until the UN came and liberated them. He was 6'5" and weighed 46kg when he was rescued. His family all escaped physically intact but still has the psychological scars to this day. I'm glad to see a video about this because not many people know about this horror. He is currently raising money for Ukraine and Palestine because he knows genocide first hand. If this video upset you then please do the same.

[@TonyAncom]

I'm so sorry that your dad and your family went through that, my friend :/. I'm glad that they got out alive. I see that you play osrs, what level are you? If you need any help on osrs, feel free to respond, and we can connect on the game :).

[@VeritasSimRacing]

Raising money for hamas, not Palestine... those criminals steal the food from their own peoples mouths and medicine from their hospitals while the virtue signallers continue to pour money into hamas so they can continue the war and murder of innocent civilians.

[@emilianozapata2530]

😂😂😂

[@petarn2204]

Second wife of my great-grandfather had 4 children, a Serbian woman. In spring 1942, in village near Prijedor city, all 4 children were brutally killed on her eyes by Ustashe Croat soldiers. Baby was taken from her arms and stick to bayonet. Most of people never made it to concentration camp, they were usually slaughtered in their villages (e.g. village Prebilovci). She survived a war, and lived and died in Belgrade after the war. She was deeply respected by our family.

[@StenanStenanovic]

Israel also sends money to Ukraine

[@ODGreenZa]

I live in south africa. I was in school in the early 90s and i recall a massive influx of Bosnian and Yugoslavian people. I made friends with lots of them and they told me of the horrors their families experienced. Some really sad stories. Thank you for the upload

[@ZijnShayatanica]

I was born in '92, so thankfully the Bosnian kids I went w/ never had to live through that tragic stuff... They moved while they were still very young, or still in utero. They did talk about there being a war their families escaped from, but... Thankfully they were able to talk about it from a safe emotional distance & were grateful they were free/alive.

[@nicolavanrhyn1726]

Hello fellow South African. I was in school with someone from DRC. Also escaping ethnic-based violence. It's scary how close we could have come to a similar outcome. Thank God we had no civil war. I've been interacting with Ukrainians here in Cape Town. You feel so helpless and you just want to do what you can to provide some friendship and peace.

[@DC_Fedens]

And the genocide carried out against Serbians from the "peace keeping" NATO forces? Ah yes, we're not gonna talk about that right? Nee klong...jy sal moet nog bietjie aan lees. This drama doesn't stop after Sarajevo bokkie.

[@VDxVicious]

Ew are you a Dutch settler colonialist family ?

[@Verita1975]

Hi I was also at school .. in matric .. one of my classmates wanted to go enlist in the Croatian Army .. he didn’t… but if we here in SA can remember the war in the Former Yugoslavia… what is wrong with Europe, USA etc that they can’t .. we are literally on the other side of the world! I also remember the Rwanda Genocide, the War in the Congo , Somali etc .. the Chaos in the Sahel ( remember the Battle of Bangui) when - unlike the Dutch in Srebrenica ( or the French in Bangui itself ) cut and ran .. 200 South African soldiers vs 5000 rebels… they held their position. Unlike the U.S. EU and UK we in the rest of the world don’t forget these things … and we are not the cowards who cause a mess ( Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Somalia … can I go on) then run away with our tails between our legs. To this day the SANDF is deployed ( as peacekeepers) in Congo , trying to stop another genocide, and peacekeeping doesn’t just mean sitting in a camp writing reports .. if you get attacked by ANY side you fire back … For crying in bucket the U.S. can’t even peace-keep in Haiti…

[@davidclubb8745]

Simon, I was in Bosnia for a year with the U.S. Army at the end of the war. I saw the brutalism first hand. You are right, people are not taught what happened. I tell anyone who will listen.

[@cmurph103]

The testimonies of firsthand witnesses are essential to learning what happened and trying to learn from this history so we can try to avoid it again. I am glad you share your story. I hope you will write it down. History needs first-hand stories like yours. Thank you.

[@LazarOrthodox04]

Except they are not just taught about it they are taught that this is a fucking genocide

[@strongmermaid4651]

You know we are heading in that direction again

[@FredBilan]

​@@LazarOrthodox04 What genocide?

[@joaocourinha8222]

Is the "palestinian genocide" video already in editing stage or is it better to wait for it to end first?

[@JootjeJ]

I've know a number of Bosnians who made it to my country during and after the war. One of the craziest things is that a lot of the enemies were their former neighbours and friends. How can you ever feel safe again anywhere or trust anyone after that?

[@anonymous-sg9ph]

Yea that's what civil war means

[@nikolarosic5419]

​@@Western-imperalismwhy?

[@ehaaron]

Serbs were way ahead for their time. Respect to the Serbs for protecting and defending their culture from jihad.

[@ehaaron]

I think you have it the other way around. the Serbs were friendly neighbors but were shocked to see their jihadi neighbors turn on them. It's happening in the UK right now.

[@IAMTHESWORDtheLAMBHASDIED]

@@Western-imperalism you're pathetic.

[@Slavko.si_Official]

The Serbs are still gonna reject the fact that this happened

[@Dr100k2]

Hi I am serb from BiH, my fathers mother was captured and killed by bosnian muslim army, my mothers mother was indjured by bosnian muslim granate, my brother’s wife with her family was prisoned by bosnian muslim army for one year only because they were serbs ( she was 18 years old) . I know thousand such stories but we only hear one side?! And what about Croatia 1995?

[@jeff0617]

@@37Dunjado you accept that actions have consequences

[@jeff0617]

⁠​⁠@@Dr100k2yes because serbs killed muslim bosnians so it goes both ways

[@zanazana361]

⁠@@Dr100k2Bosniaks had embargo, they had no guns yet alone a grenade. You need to understand that being the aggressor such as the Army of RS and being the army of defence and freedom fighter such as the Army of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina was is not the same. It was not planned in advanced by the Bosniaks to fight it was a matter of survival. I do condemn each individual who committed a crime and you need to say where it happened how and what to prosecute individuals. But the grenade story… I am having a hard time believing that since Bosniaks went to defend the country in sneakers nobody had ammunition yet alone bombs.

[@zanazana361]

@@VersusARCH it’s not how you spread false information, it’s how confidently you do it. Serbians we’re attacked because they committed multiple genocides and ethnic cleansing. NATO, USA or anyone cannot be blamed for that. Plus Bosnian Serbs need to be thankful to them. At the end of the war if they did not stop the Bosniaks, they would all be on the other side of the Drina river. You can find pictures of them fleeing Banja Luka. After all the losses, tragedies and genocides the Bosniaks been through, as soon as they starter to fight back and protect their homeland against the aggression and crazy ideology, the war ended. But that’s ok, we never wanted a country without others in the first place, we just needed to protect ourselves. We still accept them and believe in a multiethnic society which Bosnia was for a 1000 years, want just a normal life inside our homeland while they keep threatening every day. We don’t really need to talk, the entire world sees it. Cheers 🥂

[@multiyapples]

Rest in peace to those that passed away. We must work to end genocides and never forget the genocides that are happening and have happened.

[@Bigredfitnessmoshe]

What genocides are happening? Sorry, not every war is a genocide. And just because you’re losing a war doesn’t make it a genocide.

[@dragonmaster3207]

@@Bigredfitnessmoshe😂 so white phosphorus on civilians is just regular war stuff too right, as well as the explicit use of starvation as a weapon on innocent women and children? Must be a fan of collective punishment too right? There are videos of the occupation shooting at a group of literal children and murdering them. What difference is their of a war and a genocide if the war is more brutal against innocence than a genocide ?

[@Laiqa_k]

@@BigredfitnessmoshePalestine and Congo dummy

[@fal9005]

Look at Palestine nobody is helping them

[@violaisfree]

@@Bigredfitnessmoshe Don't play dumb and make this a debate. You don't have to be Einstein to know when a side is 'losing' or 'inhumanely decimated'.

[@revdev5511]

"You wont be needing them anymore" sending chills down my spine

[@justatiger6268]

I guess you've been living under a rock lately and haven't noticed what Israel has been up to.

[@SuperJustin0229]

I’m Dutch. Had to stay in a homeless shelter for a while. Here I met a Bosnian Muslim. I got to know him by playing basketball, he wanted to be a pro when he was young, but was recruited into a death squad. His hands never stopped shaking because of how much he used his automatic weapon, even 20 years later. He was an intimidating guy, I was only 19, but he turned out to be one of the only people that actually helped me get out of the situation. His stories were brutal and the frankness of how he told them disturbed me even more. This war was one of the most awful ever, neighbour fighting neighbour overnight

[@tomgu2285]

Yep

[@melip3959]

Out of curiosity- was your friend really a practicing Muslim? What was his first name?

[@Ofhumanbondage-z5w]

@@melip3959he’s lying clearly Bosnian had no arms whenever Bosnians were killed there were no armed forces only innocent civilians were massacred

[@melip3959]

@@Ofhumanbondage-z5w thank you. Obviously. Till 1993 Bosnian Army which formed itself AFTER the aggression begun (after 6.april 1992 from civilians in frmr YU Territorial Defense, Bosnian police, street kids, and defected YU Army officers) had only light weapons and items won from defeated Serb aggressors. There were no bullets enough for defense! Only near 1994 some heavier weapons were allowed by EU and US to reach Bosnian Army defenders. The person he met must be Serb who participated in war crimes, possibly genocidal acts against captured civilians executed in mass graves and their homesteads.

[@LunarWolf-H8]

​@@melip3959 престани да лажеш говноо лојаво распало

[@SpiffingNZ]

25 years in prison for heading a massacre is a god damn joke if you ask me.

[@MatriarchatsAnbeter]

@@Western-imperalism Russian Bot has arrived.

[@Jhonny55270]

Average western bot​@@MatriarchatsAnbeter

[@selma2778]

​@@Western-imperalism Bot

[@MrxSimanx]

The bigger joke is that very few Croats and Bosnians were convicted for numerous crimes over the Serbian population. Those crimes are not even mentioned.

[@valeriestory7678]

I went to high school with a girl whose family had fled Bosnia during these events. (I live in Tennessee, USA) She never talked about it. I think she just wanted to forget and move on. Thank you for bringing this terrible tragedy to modern attention. May we never forget.

[@Mirza-g9h3q]

Hi Simon, I've been following your channels for a number of years but I never thought I'd see a segment on the Bosnian genocide let alone the Višegrad massacres. Me and my family are originally from there. I lost several family members and relatives in the genocide, the youngest was my cousin, few months younger then me. I was lucky, he wasn't. On their behalf, thank you for drawing attention to the Bosnian genocide.

[@Nidzadrugar]

Englishman preaching about genocide.

[@milesduheaume203]

@@Nidzadrugar Would you rather he ignore it? It's called journalism.

[@markeedeep]

Genocide committed by Bosnian Muslims and Al Qaeda from multiple islamic states, yes.

[@gradybolding8377]

I'm actually doing a research project about what happened in Visegrad in 1992 and visited the town in June. Any chance of an interview or contact?

[@megsley]

I had a coworker about 10 years back who actually lived thru this and spent almost a year in a refugee camp. said he was lucky to be alive and happy to be in America.

[@paddington1670]

or basically any other country other than

[@MrReymoclif714]

@@paddington1670met a Serbian policeman once here in 1995 Vermont!!! He was…..intimidating to be sitting next to. He said it was……BAD OVER THERE!!!!

[@17Shkurt2008Pavarsia]

I experienced the Kosovo war which was only 3 years after Bosnia. The same killers were brought to Kosovo to do ethnic Albanian cleansing. It was a really bad war. I wouldn't even want my enemies to experience what I went through in 1998 - 99 if it wasn't for the United States and president Clinton's help, I would have been killed when I was 11 years old.

[@TheForeignGamer]

I was born during the tail end of this war. My father was an officer, therefore not only responsible for many soldiers, but also my mother and their family. My parents brought me into this world despite the risks, and thankfully most of us survived. The Dayton Accords were signed shortly after my first birthday, and we were eventually able to resettle in the US, where a relative happened to already be living. My parents & other family members, friends, and many others within our local diaspora all wished to move on from the war, as it had irrevocably changed their lives. They always did their best to not only shield me and others of my generation from the horror and their trauma, but also preserving our culture/traditions as we navigated a strange new world. In fact, in the years since our cultural identity has never been stronger, and we've never forgotten what brought us to this point. Fortunately, most of us have since become citizens in our respective new home countries and have been able to forge brand new lives out of our shared suffering. I've been fortunate enough to visit my homeland multiple times throughout my life so far, and from what I've seen I'm happy to report that, while not perfect, things have been steadily improving over the past few decades. It's easy to forget that whenever war breaks out, the people who suffer the most are civilians, just like you. Having almost everything you know and love taken from you is something no one should have to live through. When I was a kid, I once naively hoped that that was going to be the last war in human history, because I fundamentally couldn't understand why someone would choose to kill others based largely on arbitrary factors, regardless of their justification. I still don't.

[@SuzysRedStripes]

Thank you for sharing your story

[@Skeks_s]

Thank you for taking the time and effort to share this with us. Maybe one day we'll realise that god us within us all and hatred is the real hell. Living peacefully amongst your loved ones : that is heaven. Somehow hard to live in heaven with scars all over though...and no grenade is gonna get you there.

[@bosnian_patriot-f4o]

Thank you for making this video! The Bosnian genocide is one of the worst genocides in Europe history ,and it is still unknown by many.

[@cockatoo010]

Actively denied by a lot of Serbs and the state of Serbia itself.

[@johnlemon1644]

Literally trying to finish writing a final about this today, thank you so much.

[@r.kai.v11]

Thank you for covering this…a former teacher of mine was Bosnian and it means so much that you covered this 🩵.

[@jonaspaulsson9912]

Dont expect any knowledge. If you want facts i recomend ”unfinest hour” by brendan simms

[@ZoomZoomMX3]

Not sure what you fought over? Was it religions again? Language, just speak English. Colour BS again? Stop listening to old drunk uncles. Laws? Vote for changes and ask politicians if they support say abortion rights? Why the killing ... Get over the past make the world better.

[@tonyfarhner9714]

I was deployed in southern Europe as part of UN peacekeeper in this conflict. When we port visited Trieste in 1993, I befriended some university students. They snuck me across the border and showed me a mass grave of a village that was "ethnically cleansed". The grave had the bodies of civilian men, women, and children. This memory haunts me to this day.

[@kenosabi]

Jesus man. Fukin hell.

[@Chikara199]

We got many Yugoslavian refugees to Sweden during the 90's. To hear their stories is heartbreaking. Thank you for talking about these "less popular" conflicts!

[@MonkeWithThaZa]

They are not refugees, Im from ex Yugo, its mostly criminals going to your gold jewelry shops and stealing them

[@Chikara199]

@@MonkeWithThaZa I disagree. Of cours you have the Yugo maffia and criminals too. But the once I have worked with were children when this happened and they are working hard to build a life here in Sweden.

[@sci7zo]

@@MonkeWithThaZa you sound terrible. be better

[@MonkeWithThaZa]

@@Chikara199 Thats also true, I spoke for majority, now people are not stealing just working today I was also speaking about the past.

[@workphone2149]

​@MonkeWithThaZa There are a lot of statistics showing how many and how fast the bosnian refugees were able to adapt to the swedish society, meaning language, work and education.

[@povijestpovijest9569]

I was 3 years old when I became a refugee, my cousin and I together with our mothers had to flee during the night on a boat piloted by our grandpa, while our fathers stayed behind to defend the town.

[@Skeks_s]

i'm so sorry you had to go through that - people need to know though

[@WriteMeASong7]

That was our escape too. I was 7, sister 9, brother 3, and our mom. We fled, my dad couldn’t get out and became a POW. He survived. My dear mom passed away in 2016, and what she went through to get us to safety, death is the kindest thing that could happen to her.

[@katdavies8137]

My best friend & her family immigrated to Canada in 1998 from Bosnia. I never understood just how horrific the situation was over there. I heard stories but my brain could never comprehend just how bad it was.

[@teresabarnes-matych]

I had a good friend who had escaped Yugoslavia with her parents to Toronto. They were Jewish and she eventually relocated to California. Her name was Ruth and she made jewelry. I still have a necklace she made for me. Thank you for covering this horrific story. When will Humans learn to get along?

[@sennadesillva]

Unfortunately we will all never get along completely but hating a person because they were born on a different patch of dirt than yourself is just something I will never understand. Even sillier here in america where even being born in the same hospital isn't enough, it just comes down to how dark your skin is. :(

[@GhostNinja0007]

@@sennadesillva🎯 makes no sense to me either! “I’m better cause I was born here” It’s such a bull sh*t excuse but sadly it still happens, and sadly probably won’t stop anytime soon if at all.

[@GhostNinja0007]

@rwxz75 Agree, but there’s a lot more to it for me. Grew up religious and got punished for every little thing they could find. But also think that *IF* there is a god he’s a pretty crappy one to allow all this horrible sh*t to happen over and over again…

[@brandonlm0125]

Disproportional wealth will always cause people to find reasons to “other”. It always comes down to who can get what and who has to lose for them to do so.

[@60sSam]

Never. But no-one ever said we were actually smart either.

[@bhesse9012]

I grew up in St Louis. We have a massive Bosnian population. Grew up hearing stories from my friends about the war.

[@LunarWolf-H8]

They lied to you

[@libertas5005]

@@LunarWolf-H8 Oh I am sure that you, a random serb war crime apologist on the Internet, are saying the truth about everything and not denying the genocide, am I right :)

[@bosnian_patriot-f4o]

@LunarWolf-H8 what does that mean

[@vjetar2822]

@@bosnian_patriot-f4o murdered in srebrenica but work and live in St Louis. you can't lie to us. :D

[@bosnian_patriot-f4o]

@@vjetar2822 who ever said the bosnians in st louis are from srebrenica.

[@sefikempowermentcoachvilla7843]

Thank you for balance and highlighting this ...❤

[@TillerMicroSkiffs]

Our school resource officer was a peacekeeper. He was never the same after he saw this with his own eyes... please never again.❤

[@Ivo--]

As a Dutch person, Srebrenica is absolutely known to us. A black mark in our history. I have friends who served in Dutchbat 3. We know.

[@JootjeJ]

Same here.

[@juliajs1752]

Srebrenica is pretty much synonymous with failure of the international community and mass executions in the name of genocide.

[@Kaluranda]

As a kid during that time. Us dutchies learn a little about it in school. So no matter the age, at least we know and remember.

[@keca.4324]

I hope you know! It's a black mark in Dutch history indeed

[@danilicious2308]

​@@keca.4324 also a black mark in NATO history, because the US and France both refused to help the Dutch, even though they were very aware of what was going to happen.

[@chrishubbard1442]

Thanks Simon. Clear, concise and important. Keep up the good work. Some people at least appreciate it.

[@samaravadi3]

I worked with a Serbian who was a kid when the war happened. He had some massive PTSD from it and never really got a chance to be a kid.

[@havocgr1976]

Knew a Serbian woman that was a soldier back then, she removed her ovaries after the war when she came to my country, she said she didnt want to bring kids in this horrible world.She was so broken, worked as a bodyguard, 2 meters tall and muscular.

[@shinren_]

How are serbian kids having ptsd? Its the bosnians that were in the middle of the war. I doubt serbian kids saw any of the war

[@mtomic87]

@@shinren_ There were Serb children in Bosnia, and attrocities on all sides. The vast majority commited by Serbs, for sure, but still thousands on civilians died on all three sides.

[@BellumCarroll]

@@shinren_ War crimes were committed on all sides. Former friend’s & neighbours killing each other.

[@shinren_]

@@BellumCarroll gee wiz i wonder who started it

[@RainbowBecca]

I grew up on stories of this war from my grandpa who escaped yugoslavia as a child. Didnt realize it wasnt common knowledge until waaay later. Thank you for covering it!

[@DirtySancheeezz]

Sad fact is some people still celabrate general Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic as heroes and as i can recall in Serbia they have murals that glorify them

[@clericaltotalitarian]

Sad fact is people spread bullshit like this video does.

[@dencuze]

@@clericaltotalitarian oh look at you, so salty because people dislike war and genocide :(

[@stonks_n_chomps7556]

Thank you for covering this. My dad served in Bosnia.

[@synaestesia-bg3ew]

He probably had committed many crimes

[@Sharpes-Rifle]

@@synaestesia-bg3ew Bell-end! Lots of people served in Bosnia for the UN, albeit how useless it mainly was, which is what the original comment was about.

[@danilicious2308]

​@@synaestesia-bg3ew seems like something struck a nerve with you. You ok? Did your family commit these crimes?

[@random13627]

@@synaestesia-bg3ewubi se

[@random13627]

@@synaestesia-bg3ewubi se

[@blablabla1044]

Days and weeks after the genocide, I still remember occasionally people showing up from the woods with horrific stories of how Serbian army hunted them like animals. You cannot even describe horror in their eyes. Not to mention stories of women who suffered in concentration camps, soldiers teasing them which one of their children they will kill next. There are 1st class nazis still in power in Serbia today, and EU makes deals with them. It is such a disgusting state of the affairs.

[@clericaltotalitarian]

"genocide"

[@TheMujkan]

Theyre worse than nazis. At least german people recognized and accepted the horrific stuff their soldiers did and never came close to it again. Between serbian civilians this is seen as a great act of heroic deed and they refuse to accept they did anything wrong and would most surely do it again. There is one worse-than-nazi even in your replies, they cant hide their true genocidal colours and intentions.

[@SerbianWoman]

Be careful what you write! Greetings from Serbia

[@blablabla1044]

@@SerbianWoman excuse me??

[@benjo6808]

​@@clericaltotalitarianyup genocide by genocidal people what's the problem?

[@VonW0lf3N5t31N]

My Uncle was a Canadian peace keeper during the war. His stories were horrible. I was only 12 when he told me them but I never forgot. He told me in one place they found the Serbs hung bodies on meat hooks in a smashed out butcher shop window. Another guy put heads in between his handlebars on his motorbike and would drive around... Looking back, I think I was too young to really understand what it takes to do this to another human. Thank you for covering this.

[@keksi6844]

Remember when Canadians run away from my hometown and later were too afraid to come back....Problem is EU and USA put ARMS SANCTIONS on Bosnia so we did not have proper weapons to fight back and had to rely on Canadians,Americans and EU which caused deaths of 100,000 people.

[@milapopdimitrova8879]

And the "peace keepers" did absolutely nothing to protect the victims. Utter failure

[@vjetar2822]

huso ne seri. :D mislim vi mudzosi ste poznati po postenju i iskrenosti al odvadi malo. :D

[@MartinLuna-Torres]

@@milapopdimitrova8879peacekeepers have no orders of offence, they can no simply just defend Bosnians sadly, it become an act of war against Serbian army. Same thing happened during the Rwandan Genocide many UN officers simply watched as they where ordered to do nothing but take information. The UN is overall a good idea with a failed reality once in tough positions

[@iyazo]

In the mid/late 90s, I remember my elementary school having an assembly about the genocide (speaking about tolerance, with a guest speaker who was a Holocaust survivor and an Afghani woman who had also fled from war who became a teacher/aid(?) at my school). There was a group of Bosniak women who had moved into the area at the time and enrolled their kids in my school. I had never really thought about the fact that they were all women with female children who had moved into my neighborhood in a small town on the East Coast US, but now I understand why that probably was; it's sick and incredibly sad. Unfortunately, the few kids I had met didn't really get along with anyone in the area, either. At the time, I had no idea what kind of horrors they could have possibly been through, and on top of that, they were often bullied for being Muslim or just "different" in general. I hope those ladies are all doing alright now. It's good to learn about what happened, horrible as it is, as I was too young to understand at the time.

[@fhuuraliulfr5756]

I actually went to school with some Bosnian refugees in the 90s, I think I was in 1st grade. At the time, I was too little to understand what had happened, though. So sad.

[@Omidion]

If your only source of information about the whole thing is just this clip i'm sad to say that you still don't understand it, but if u whish to there are YT clips that explain the whole thing properly and objectively.

[@lottaleissner497]

Same here. In my class we had I think 3 Bosnians and 2 Serbs for a number of years. We got told they had to move to my country because of a war, and we had to be extra nice to them and help them learn our language, because some of their families had died. You could tell there was mutual fear between the children in the beginning, but they soon became friends. I found it the most natural thing in the world that they would; they came from the same place, spoke the same language, and all had lived thru something horrible. I was too privileged to understand why the grown ups made it such a big deal. Why wouldn't we all be friends?

[@fhuuraliulfr5756]

@@Omidion I never said it was, just giving my two cents on a video that had just uploaded.

[@fhuuraliulfr5756]

@@lottaleissner497 Aww, yeah exactly!

[@tarikkantarevic845]

❤

[@ahmedsalkan]

Thanks for shedding some light on this tragic part of my country's history. Greetings from Bosnia!

[@SasaBlazevic]

AHMAGA MOJ IMAS SELAM I VOZDRA OD SALKANA,SASA BLAZEVIC MALI SALKO PRIJEDORCANIN BIO U LOGORU TRNOPOLJU ZIVIO

[@171-OC]

I went to Bosnia in 1995 under the UN Blue Hats, We were a Force that had their hands tied behind their backs... At the end of 1995 the Dayton Peace agreement was signed and the UN was then removed and replaced with NATO. I worked under IFOR, the killings didn't stop ! We located so many mass graves... It was terrible, and yet those perpetrators all went free...

[@JootjeJ]

Thank you for your service! 🫶

[@beewisebeestronger6224]

I've got a hat from my dad who was there but it says SFOR , stationed at the UN building next to the TV station ruins

[@lusiennn]

In the 1990s, the Ukrainian military took part in the UN peacekeeping mission in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. One of the bloodiest wars in the region then took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina. There, the Ukrainians were able to agree on the evacuation of Muslims from the city of Zhepa and thus saved more than 5,000 people. So i doubt that un could not do anything about it.

[@vjetar2822]

yeah you were stealing mass graves of murdered Serbs. its common knowledge.

[@sentinel_Alphacentauri]

A very good friend of mine in Germany,survived these massacres as a toddler along with her parents,her grandparents and dozens of her relatives didn't survive

[@salkokumkidcudi]

Simon, thank you for covering this topic, the stories of the Bosnian war are not known to many. As a Bosnian I could not stop crying watching this video. All the best to you.

[@stefaneer9120]

As I was a child during the Bosnian Genocide, the parents and my grandparents did knowing about this about the daily news and the newspaper and from refugee who can flee from Bosnia.

[@Budzjustin]

I love these videos, I think it's important to learn about and remember these past tragedies..but man does it make me furious!

[@the_original_dane]

Simon has such a clear and respectful way of delivering the message. I know there are writers and producers and editors but he is the face of them all and they make up some great informative content. Thank you for sharing this history.

[@AcornElectron]

I didn’t need to learn about it, I lived through it.

[@testadalord01432]

My condolences man, hope you’re in a better place despite all you went through

[@CM-lw3qf]

No one cares

[@StainsStainsStains]

If you lived through it, it’s most important for you to learn about it. You may already carry a bias and you don’t know it.

[@AngeliqueStP]

@@CM-lw3qf Crawl back to your hole, Smeagol.

[@Likenobodybro]

@@CM-lw3qf son,why don't you go help ur mumy with dishes or something,cuz,WHO TF GIVED U IPAD

[@xessenceofinsanityx]

I went to school with a girl who survived this (actually come to think of it, I went to school with a lot of survivors of genocides...) As a child of divorce I was already well versed in not asking where someone's father was, it wasn't until my mum ended up talking to her mum that I realised why she had no male family members.

[@VersusARCH]

If the event in Srebrenica were a genocide she would not have survived it. Women, children and the elderly were evacuated by the Serbs to the Muslim held areas of Bosnia. It was the men of the fighting age who died. Some were prisoners who were massacred but many were killed in combat while trying to break through to the Muslim held town of Tuzla. The breakthrough column suffered heavy artillery barrage. Nobody is denying that a POW massacre is a war crime. But labeling it a genocide is twisting facts for propaganda purposes.

[@nullv01d]

@@VersusARCH "iT iS nOt A gEnOcIdE bEcAuSe PeOpLe SuRvIvEd" Silence, chetnik!

[@h-run1751]

​@@nullv01d Ignore him. Just ignore him. You'll thank me later. He can't help himself. Its a doctrine to deny it. He was taught his whole life to deny it.

[@dzonikg]

Was is it a genocide if only men in fighting age died? LIke similar stuff west do at Kosovo ,in Racak when 50 Albanian terrorist were killed ,West "tranform" them to "civlians" and it was reason NATO to attack Serbia but you go to Albania there is multiply statues off killed leader off that group with machine gun ,so that "civilian " has a statues with mashine gun in his hand

[@nollienick1121]

@@VersusARCH man doing a lot of backflips to say nothing at all. You can type a lot of words. Good for you. You’re still wrong.

[@NaimHrustanovic]

Thank you for this.

[@Savadais]

''Europe’s Only Genocide Since WWII'' That's a very bold claim under current circumstances.

[@HotEatTheFood]

This channel has always been Pro-Poorly disguised American military outposts pretending to be an ethno-state country

[@JusufBideovic]

Between 1945 and 1992 nothing resembling a genocide happened in Europe. The Ukrainian war is being fought much more "cleanly" than the Bosnian one, so in my opinion it doesnt qualify. And palestine / israel are not in europe.

[@merisav4171]

@@JusufBideovic how it does not qualify? russians are taking children to reeducate them, destroy schools and churches, claim ukrainians have no real identity and our language is just an accent. Also, Holodomor

[@Savadais]

​@@JusufBideovic That's because the Soviet Union and today's Russia don't keep any records. Russia fights clean? Civilian areas in Ukraine have been bombarded daily for the past 2 years. Now Russia has even law that any new-born children of non-Russian citizens in occupied Ukraine have to be taken by the Russian state immediately. Where do those stolen children end up? Nobody knows. No records are being kept. It's a bad idea to base truth on just ''Innocent until proven guilty''. Truth doesn't care about what we can or cant prove.

[@stevebeer3324]

@@JusufBideovic The war Russia is waging on Ukraine is not being fought" cleanly", -(are any wars?) There are now hundreds of thousands of war crimes that have been committed by Russians, and the rhetoric on Russian television is definitely genocidal with commentators declaring Ukraine does not exist that , Ukrainian culture does not exist, and speculating on what percentage of the Ukrainian population need to be exterminated in order to teach the rest obedience to Russia. Have a look at Russian Media Monitor by Julia Davis. She puts on the most popular Russian talk shows with subtitles. .

[@chadepperson8945]

Torn on liking this video, great video but such a sad point in human history. One heartbreak after another.

[@randomperson6433]

Simon often says something like “if you liked this or found it informative…” just for situations like this. You don’t have to feel like an AH for liking it. You appreciate the coverage. It raises awareness. Think of it that way.

[@blackyout7824]

@@randomperson6433thanks random person

[@lostghost7915]

My childhood best friend's father fled from a work camp where his brothers died. He never spoke about it and as a kid I never imagined just how bad it was. He was always hard working, quiet, and did everything to provide his kids the best life possible. It's insane what people around you might have been through without you ever even having an idea.

[@marywooten9248]

Over in North Carolina there are many Bosnian folks that came over as refugees back then. I've mostly met grandparents though, because their grandkids would need to translate for them at their appointments. The grandparents always seemed really stoic. Probably not very surprising.

[@dakistle]

I had a Bosnian friend as a lad and would go to his family's parties. The old guys would drink Slivovitz and tell me horror stories in rough English.

[@fhuuraliulfr5756]

Yeah, same in Florida, I went to school with some Bosnian kids in elementary school.

[@yankeedogg2212]

I was stationed in Germany 91-94. We knew about this stuff. Soldiers from my division got assigned to the UN peacekeeping force.

[@Jeff-fc3tw]

What this guy didn't tell you was the Dutch Soldiers commandeering Srebreniza told all Refugees( Bosnians) that the only way they can enter is turn in their weapons. Then when Srebreniza got surrounded, Those same UN troops surrendered and Fled leaving the Bosnians to be Slaughtered!!! United Nations troops ALWAYS cause more harm than good.

[@thecynic9232]

Please exclude Rwanda from your catch-all description of UN forces. The UN sent Canadian General Romeo Dallaire to Rwanda. Dallaire was given ZERO support and was not even given a mandate to prevent the genocide. He was left so impotent to act he ultimately had a breakdown and suffers from horrific PTSD. 1,000,000 people slaughtered in one month.🇨🇦❤️

[@dodoxd650]

Jsjsjajsjekskwo

[@remcodenouden5019]

They were there without heavy weapons, without support, heavily outnumbered and were denied air support. What should they have done? Fought to the last man, only to have all those men be killed anyway?

[@phantomopera5525]

That is not true. What the Dutch batallion did was horrendous, but it does not translate the the entire UN peacekeeping efforts. And again, politics...

[@ML-my8qq]

As a Canadian who grew up close to a military base, I know dozens of people who went overseas to peace keep in Bosnia. The stories I’ve heard are amazing and disgusting.

[@ehaaron]

Serbs were way ahead of their time. they had to deal with jihad.

[@zell863]

@@ehaaron I'm a Croat from Bosnia. There wasn't any jihad in Bosnia.

[@ehaaron]

@@zell863 there would've been if it weren't for the Serbs.

[@zell863]

@@ehaaron No there wasn't and there will not be. It is bs. If Bosnians want jihad they can make it today in Bosnia and they do not do it.

[@dice5709]

@@zell863 because they are nicer than Serbs anyway.

[@Unclesmokey314]

I live in St. Louis Mo and we had a HUGE Bosnian influx in the early 90s. I remember seeing signs that read "Urgently needed: Bosnian translators around Affton, Shrewsbury, South Side, and Bevo neighborhoods and a few yrs later the school I graduated from was almost 80% and had translators in every room. Good people, hard working and wonderful food culture!! Rakja is soooo yummy!! Most of the men I ended up working with in factories had the same story.... 8-10k slaughtered in their town/village. Every one I ever met had left family and friends behind either dead already or soon to be and that's the way it was. I was shown video of bullets striking the rear of a vehicle as one of my coworkers was fleeing his town. Totally fleeing under machine gun fire.. Never once heard any of the women speak of their tragedies, just the men. They have very much made their lives and futures her in STL and contribute wholeheartedly. I have befriended many in my different employments around town and I respect and regard them highly. The older ones have been through it so the young ones can have the lives they do and never know ethnic cleansing, bc we don't do that shit here in America. I feel for them in many ways for there is a distinct and general sorrow that comes with knowing the older ones and horrors survived.

[@HarisHuskic-gp1ni]

Bosnian refugee here born in 94 came to stlouis in 96 and has been home ever since. Thanks so much for the kind words we work hard and are appreciate of the free world we were given here. I went and fought in ukraine and got wounded. .

[@Unclesmokey314]

@@HarisHuskic-gp1ni there is a fight to be fought here now too I'm afraid... they call it a "cultural revolution" it's just communism in disguise.

[@random13627]

@@HarisHuskic-gp1nihvala bogu da si ziv

[@VersusARCH]

Getting cheap labor out of Bosnia was one of the reasons the West tacitly allowed the war to happen. It's a new, convoluted way of reducing labor prices (it used to be achieved with slavery a few centuries ago).

[@cathjj840]

US mostly outsources ethnic cleansing to foreign countries, except for that against our indigenous populations, of course, that we usually forget about, but there was also the massacre of the black community in Tulsa, OK in 1921.

[@robynpalumbo9779]

I knew but I'm certainly glad you're giving people a very important history lesson!

[@jasenbertrand]

Strangely enough, as an American, I knew about this as a child and how all governments just looked the other way.

[@jonaspaulsson9912]

They did not look the other way. They helped serbia

[@blackwatertv7018]

NATO literally went to war with Serbia and bombed into the dark ages cause it was doing this.

[@MrTexasDan]

@@jonaspaulsson9912 Um, no.

[@jonaspaulsson9912]

@@MrTexasDan really? What do you call upholding an illegal arms embargo on Bosnia while serbia had all the weapons they needed? Didnt that in fact help serbia? What do you say about sending un troops to Bosnia so the serbs had potential hostages thus making it very easy for serbia to attack srebrenica since nato could not bomb them. In the spring of 94 swedish un troops took over the siege of sarajevo following the markale massacre. The serbs regrouped to Gorazde and attacked in april killing a 1000 people. Moron

[@jonaspaulsson9912]

@@MrTexasDan so you are not familiar with the arms embargo or the un troops?

[@mringasa1848]

This all happened when I was in my late teens/early 20s. It was a real eye opener for me at the time. I just didn't understand how the hell people could do these things to each other. We're all human... Thanks for covering this topic. Perfect material for Into the Shadows, and I've been waiting for the neutral'ish overview from this channel. :)

[@hardy_boehm]

I have watched probably a hundred videos across your different channels, covering many evil actions, but this is the first where I could see your (perfectly understandable) rage. Thank you for choosing to cover this nonetheless!

[@janap8019]

If you want the truth, this is not the truth….before Srebrenica 30.000 serbs women children, grandparents, fathers were killed butchered, massacred….in Srebrenica only bosniak soldiers were killed….serb army evacuated the women children and older also young men that didn’t want to stay and fight….the bosniak didn’t have mercy for serbian women or children….that is the truth….but Bosniak with the help of Germany nazi regime with the US Bill Clinton did everything to cover the atrocities committed by the Muslim to fulfill the agenda from Croatia and Germany

[@medusagorgo5146]

Oh, I knew about it. My company was deployed to Hungary and my platoon was stationed in Slavonski-Brod. Just about every day I pulled security on the Bosnian side of the bridge on the Sava river. We would also conduct patrols into Bosnia and around Croatia up to the Hungarian border. We dealt with the locals on both sides, it was interesting times.

[@williamwilson6499]

We have one going on now courtesy of Israel. I was in Bosnia in 1997 as part of SFOR. It wasn’t a hot war at that time but it wasn’t peaceful either. The damage inflicted on the towns was severe…lots of fresh graves in the Muslim areas.

[@BCSoHappy]

That is simply not true.

[@VersusARCH]

The war ended in 1995.

[@EmergingEcho]

William, I am glad that the Anglo-Saxon world has always sided with their Muslim brothers.

[@dzonikg]

And where were the graves off 30 000 Serb civilians killed?

[@DJ-iu5bb]

@@dzonikg Jasenovac but two wrongs dont make a right

[@meeeka]

Thank goodness you are covering this. It was a hugely unspeakably wickedness.

[@LunarWolf-H8]

Марш у пиичку материну

[@alejandroarvizu4112]

Crazy how in the U.S schools this is never mentioned. I’m 23 now and I have a friend from Bosnia and talking to him has really made me learn more about the conflicts that happened in Eastern Europe.

[@tomislavblazevic2742]

Thanks for reminding the world.

[@nemanjaugljesic1983]

as a Serb myself i still cant belivie something like this could ever happen, i was 9 when the war started and i was living in todays Croatia, i experienced war to some degree but i was a lucky one cause i get to live and no one of my family members died. it was a verry traumatic experience and a lot of us who survived it rarely talk about it cause its to painfull for us, im just deeply sorry for all victims and their families, this should never happen again

[@BranislavB-hx9zy]

Milosevic crushed Yugoslavia after Tito's death, with the stroke of a pen in parliament when he annexed Kosovo and Vojvodina to become part of Serbia. This led to the communists in Slovenia and Croatia who were pro-Yugoslavia losing power and democratic forces came to power there demanding to leave Yugoslavia. Then Milosevic started with terror and occupation of his neighboring countries 1991-1999. The Z-4 Plan, Serb majority areas in Croatia would be granted significant autonomy, including the right to elect their own president, and have their own emblem, currency and “very, very substantial self-government,” according to the Ambassador Galbraith. Behind the scenes, Milosevic worked against adoption of the Z-4 Plan, despite its advantages to the Croatian Serbs. As Ambassador Galbraith testified, 'Milosevic had no interest in the welfare of Serbs that [sic] lived in Krajina. He looked at Z-4 not for what it might have done for the Serbs of Krajina . . . but as a precedent that might be applied to Kosovo.' In other words, if Croatia provided a high level of autonomy to a minority (the Serbs), then Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia would have difficulty arguing against similar autonomy for the Albanians in Kosovo.

[@philagethechef]

90s kid here 1st time I ever saw real war on TV was the yugoslav wars I didn't know what was going on at the time but when I saw images of the bodies my ww2 veteran grandfather told me "this is why we don't need more wars and don't you ever forget that you're are not better than anyone else because they're different from you."

[@Isaac-ho8gh]

That's great you used your platform to increase awareness about this genocide! Its so fucked how ignored it is, people might just care about the threat of fascism more if more people are taught about fascist stuff like this.

[@Boe-Temeraire]

My godfather was sent to Bosnia as part of NATO while he was a soldier. He never spoke of it around me, but my parents say that he was never the same after he returned as he felt helpless to stop anything or help anyone. The more I learn about this genocide the more I understand why nobody could ever come away from it the same as they were before. It’s a level of horror and heartbreak that I’m lucky to not be able to fully comprehend.

[@ownagesniper1]

Great video, very informative.

[@luishernandezblonde]

I wonder why Serbs used memories of WW2 to inflict horror on Bosnians. The fact that many Serbs still evoked their past horror endured during the WW2 to justify for their actions in Bosnia is shocking.

[@Parabellum-oe3sw]

Every genocide I know of was committed from a position of a victim. The Germans killed Jews because they supposedly were the victims of international Jewry, the Turks committed genocide on Armenians because they supposedly wanted to protect themselves from Armenians working for the Russians, the Soviets committed genocide on Ukrainians to supposedly defend themselves from kulaks, fascists etc. No aggressors sees himself as the aggressor but the victim

[@sum_ergo_cogito]

Justify what? All we did was protect ourselves. Oh, and also, a little massacring on the side. Happens, it’s war. But genocide? Absolutely not.

[@Ivan-gp4tr]

​@@sum_ergo_cogitoWhy cry about WW2 then? It was also just defense from Croatian side by your logic. Its war, it happens.

[@milutinpetrovic7775]

​@@Ivan-gp4trYou can't compare ww2 with Bosnian war in ww2 after Germans occupied Yugoslavia Croats wanted to kill 1/3 of Serbs 1/3 to expel and 1/3 to assimilate and then Serbs started making uprisings. Bosnian war started because Croats and Bosnians wanted independence from Yugoslavia and Serbs from Bosnia wanted to stay in Yugoslavia or to be independent. Then war and war crimes started happening and all sides did them.

[@Ivan-gp4tr]

@@milutinpetrovic7775 But why Croats wanted to do it? Im not excusing them. But you were constantly through out history claiming their land, and all together just claiming that they are in fact Serbs and that they have not the right for their country. Plus many other provocations. There was a reason for their crimes, (im not saying its justified, its not), but they didnt do it because they were bored...

[@TheLagzilla]

Was a part of the UNprofor to clean up in Tulsa, to this day this sight still gives me nightmares. The pure evil of this conflict must never be forgotten.......

[@Mortillius8171]

What I feel you should have mentioned is the killing of priests in Široki Brijeg. They specifically were targeted that day, and as far as I know only one escaped because he refused to wear his habit. 66 were killed and tossed into the Neretva river. They were found all over the country.

[@lazytommy0]

people are horrible to eachother whenever they get the chance. distasteful and saddening. to quote shakespeare : "Hell is empty, and all the demons are here"

[@tomgu2285]

Yep

[@farisomerovic307]

Thank you for making this video

[@petarn2204]

Second wife of my great-grandfather had 4 children, a Serbian woman. In spring 1942, in village near Prijedor city, all 4 children were brutally killed on her eyes by Ustashe Croat soldiers. Baby was taken from her arms and stick to bayonet. Most of people never made it to concentration camp, they were usually slaughtered in their villages (e.g. village Prebilovci). She survived a war, and lived and died in Belgrade after the war. She was deeply respected by our family.

[@TheSouth-j7f]

Serbian Chetniks bayonetted Croatian children and Croatian babies during WW2, for example, the "Gata massacre" which happened on the 1st of October in 1942.

[@YaMuthasOnion]

Everyone likes to think that these atrocities are a thing of the past, when humanity was younger... Nope. This happened at the same time that I, and probably a few of you, was coming home from school and worried about playing the new Sonic game. I didn't even learn about this till my last year of high school, which was almost a decade later. Absolutely disgusting and reprehensible

[@havocgr1976]

We had a band made a song back then in my country, one of the lyrics was "you watch all this in the news while you eat".

[@YaMuthasOnion]

@havocgr1976 To quote another song, 'it's sad, but true.' It's like even if you did hear about it on the news, it'll be presented in a way that greatly downplays the severity of what's going on. They'll also attempt to dehumanize & retard the intelligence of not only the perpetrators, but the victims as well. That way, it seems so distant and removed from us that most people don't question their leaders or politicians about their inaction on the issue, nevermind their culpability in the crimes. Someone smarter than me once said, 'All that's necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing'. Well, here's your case-in-point

[@niallcampion78]

Yes and the Nazis were gassing and burning millions of people in ovens a mere 33 years before I was born and I used to play sonic in the 90’s as well. This is not ancient history this is almost current in the long arc of time.

[@barrybyrd5272]

It’s good to see this spoken of. I’ve only encountered a handful of other Veterans who did time there and even fewer civilians who knew anything happened there at all.

[@Paarthurnax83]

Bosnian here, got out in 97 to Sweden. Can just say that no side can say they won, everyone lost someone. Lost my father in 94 and recovered his bones in 2015 thx to forensic team from US. And people still suffer by coruption down there. All in all war is sh*t.

[@theenclave5816]

Sorry about your loss, couldn’t even begin to imagine what it’s like losing a parent whilst fleeing from your very home all whilst not understanding why people would want to commit such unspeakable actions against other people over ethnic differences.

[@VersusARCH]

Americans and their European allies won. They put Bosnia under their own military occupation (under the guise of UN peacekeeping) and turned it into a source of cheap and labor imports a new market for their exports, and they earned some money by covertly exporting arms and goods at inflated prices to the warring parties. All the while barely losing a soldier in the process since the locals, whom they helped antagonize against rach other, mostly fought each other.

[@erolmitevski3729]

@@VersusARCHrepublica Srpska was part of the conspiracy. They were on the side of the deep state and were ordered to massacre as many Bosniaks and Croats as possible

[@Nerevar1991]

@@VersusARCHOh just shut up

[@DJ-iu5bb]

@@VersusARCH but what does this have to do with Serbians killing Men Women and Children of Bosnian Decent ?

[@HarisHuskic-gp1ni]

Thank you Simon thank u so much for narrating this.

[@Shalizarable]

Thank you 🙏

[@LunarWolf-H8]

Попушиш необрезан куураац 😉

[@Shalizarable]

@@LunarWolf-H8 pa nisam genocidna srpkinja one vole svakakve i dzabe i za pare, ja ne, ipak sam muslimanka. Pitaj mamu ili sestru, vidjet ces, prihvatit ce u sekundi.

[@LunarWolf-H8]

@@Shalizarable јеси јеси потурчена Српкиња, испитај породично стабло 5,6 колена у назад а што се јеебања тиче саме се дајете

[@dinosaurwoman]

Though American, my father is full Croatian, so we did know about this genocide. (His parents immigrated to American from Croatia in the 30s.) We have family members who weren't involved in the conflict, but certainly saw the aftermath. It was a horrific time for everyone, and we need videos like this to keep the information out there. Thanks for covering it.

[@vesnaoric]

Мислиш на онај геноцид над Србима у НДХ у 2.св.рату,концентрационом логору Јасеновацу?

[@user-dk6xd4lx4l]

Serbia already playing the victim card 😂

[@daveacbickford]

Thank you for making this video, some of my earliest memories as a young Australian were watching the Yugoslav wars unfold on the News, starting when I was about 6. It was chilling watching and hearing of what was happening, such brutality was hard to comprehend as an Aussie, we're often so sheltered and in the early 90s as Europe went through the seismic shift of the Eastern Bloc transforming, such change was truly alien to Aussies. Fortunately our country has proudly welcomed and sheltered many who've fled many conflicts, including the Bosnian War. I've been fortunate enough to meet and know many people from all the former Yugoslav countries who've come to Australia, in particular we have thriving communities of Croatian and North Macedonian descent, and they've all been amazing people, who're happy to share their culture and form part of the patchwork of cultural influences in Australia. May we never see anything this brutal, ever again. Anywhere.

[@christianhatke477]

I grew up around a lot of people whose parents/ uncles/ aunts fled Cambodia because of their genocide. Some of them had family members that stayed behind to keep fighting. Learning about how quickly that all happened blew my mind.

[@DzoniMakaroni]

1/2 Let me give you the Serbian side of the story, as this video is extremely anti-Serbian. For example, absolutely 0 anti-Serbian crimes were mentioned, even though there were many. Let's begin: 1. Your terminology is wrong from the get-go. A "Bosnian" is a person from Bosnia. These can be ethnic Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Poles, Swedes, Jews, etc. What you're looking for is the term "Bosniak", not Bosnian. If you're confusing nationality with ethnicity, that already shows how well researched this video is. 2. 1:38 These ethnic tensions apply for all ethnic groups, not just Serbs. The Bosniaks in particular tried to distinguish themselves, as they didn't have a national identity. This is also one of the reasons why this "genocide" is marketed so much. The Bosniak identity is mostly just "we were victims in the 90s", with not much else history-wise. A contributing factor was the 1974. constitution, which gave Bosnian Muslims the chance to identify as "Bosniaks". 3. 1:57 You conveniently didn't mention Alija Izetbegović, the leader of the SDA party, which had Bosniak support in Bosnia. He had much more power that Radovan Karadžić. This man (allegedly) collaborated with Nazis in World War two, but also, had written the "Muslim Declaration", that called for a clean Bosnia, with only Muslims in it. You can find a free PDF of this online with a simple Google search (Alija Izetbegović - Islamska Deklaracija). This document was initially censored in Yugoslavia, but it showcases the rotten beliefs of this man, that you of course didn't mention, because it doesn't go with the "Serbs are evil monsters" narrative. 4. 2:48 This is a fun one. First of all, Croatia won the war by committing the biggest ethnic cleansing in the entire Yugoslav wars. In a few days in August 1995, they cleansed 250.000 Serbs from Croatia, also killing around 2500, while of course burning houses and churches, and destroying graveyards. Today, only around 100.000 Serbs live in Croatia. Not only that, but the war in Croatia was started by the Croats. The Croats were given privileges in the presidency of the SFRY, for example, the president of Yugoslavia needed to be changed every year. The Croats had a Croat president for 3 years in a row, with Stipe Mesić finally declaring in 1991: "I have completed my task. Yugoslavia no longer exists. Thank you very much". You can find this video on KZbin - "Mesić: Posao sam obavio, Jugoslavije više nema!". The Croats actively worked against Yugoslavia from the inside, and the Serbs did not want conflict. They didn't make territorial claims for the rest of Croatia, they just wanted to separate from Croatia with the parts they were already living in (and if you support the independence of Kosovo, you can't avoid supporting this). 5. 3:00 The minority in question are Albanians. They wanted independence, even though they weren't a Yugoslav republic. Although they did lose the 1998-1999 war, the Macedonian insurgency in 2001 wasn't started because of ethnic fears (because there was no prior conflict in Macedonia), it was started because the Albanians wanted to live in Greater Albania. They saw their initial success in Kosovo (because Yugoslav troops were forced to withdraw, even though Kosovo remained in Yugoslavia by UN resolution 1244), and so they wanted to try the same thing in Macedonia. Today, Macedonia is made up of 1/3 of Albanians. They are absolutely not in any danger, nor were they ever in any danger in Macedonia. 6. 4:18 The war's start date is simple, but it's not recognized because Serbs didn't fire the first shots. The Bosniak "Patriotic Guard" fired on JNA columns that were exiting the cities of Sarajevo and Tuzla. They were pulling out, but the SDA-led Patriotic Guard fired on them. You can find both events recorded on KZbin - "Tuzla napad na JNA" & "Dobrovoljacka- komanda za napad na kolonu JNA". A few days after the attacks, the Serbian army in Bosnia was formed. An important fact is: The Serbian army was formed last. The Croatian army was formed on the 8th of April, the Bosniak on the 15 of April, and the Serbian on the 12th of May. Interesting how Serbs started a conflict when they didn't even have a military, eh? 7. 5:30 Ah yes, the Markale massacre. We'll group this under the Tuzla massacre as well, because they're similar acts. So, we can see that in Ukraine, Russia is using 155mm artillery shells. These shells land literally a few meters away from a column of soldiers, and most of them aren't killed or torn apart (you can find a billion of these videos on Telegram channels). Now, we're to believe that the VRS (Serbian army) was so skilled, that they could kill around 60-70 people with just one 122mm mortar shell (which is a smaller calibre than 155mm)? And all this happened exactly when NATO was considering an intervention, and when Bill Clinton's presidency started (and that's when the US started to play a much bigger role in the Bosnian civil war). As much as this sounds like the raving of a conspiracy theory lunatic, there is no possible way for someone to kill 70 people with one mortar/artillery shell. And for that to happen at exactly the pivotal time so NATO can have an excuse to attack... come on. There's a reason why artillery uses multiple units at once, who all fire on the same target. It's because one single unit can't do almost any damage. As much as the VRS had trained artillery personnel, there is no way for someone to kill so many people with just one shell.

[@ThreeFontStreet]

Claims “anti-Serbian”. Rewrites history claiming 250,000 Serbs evacuating Krajina after Serb forces cleansing 250,000 Croats there prior as itself “ethnic cleansing”. Let alone the inflated death toll. At least try to fake being honest and neutral. Might catch more gullible people. First bullet in Croatia was fired by Serbs. Why would Croatia want to make becoming independent more difficult by wanting to start a war? Croatia didn’t try to install Croat separatists in Voijvidina yet 50,000 Croats had to flee Voijvidina. In total 500k Croats were expelled from any part of Croatia under control of Serb forces accordingto Human Rights Watch. Serbs were not ordered to leave Krajina by Croatia. They were mostly told to leave by Serb officials ahead of Croatian army advances. Fearing revenge would happen for what happened to Croats that used to live in Krajina. Way to gloss over that.

[@ThreeFontStreet]

The 250,000 Serbs leaving under Serbian order is not ethnic cleansing. The expelling of 250,000 Croats from Krajina and 500,000 from all territories in Croatia under Serb forces control, was. Way to leave that out. Croatia did not order Serbs to leave.

[@ThreeFontStreet]

250k Croats cleansed from Serbian Krajina 91-92. Interestingly left out. 500k expelled thousands killed from all Serb rebel held areas of Croatia. Human Right Watch recorded.

[@DzoniMakaroni]

@@ThreeFontStreet Where exactly? What are the names of those villages/towns?

[@coffeecoder8162]

This argument has the taste of "If the Nazis were right about the Jews then the Holocaust would have been justified" to it.

[@BalkanReality]

I lived as a refugee for 7 years in 3 different from ages 2 to 9. I have no direct memory of leaving Bosnia, so the first memory I remember as a child was the first camp I arrived too, a converted military barrack in Germany

[@michaelholt8590]

My high school in Northeast Tennessee was covering this while it happened. There was a national school morning TV show called Channel 1 that was produced and worked by kids. They had reporters in Bosnia showing the atrocities happening.

[@Brave2standalone]

"If you jump into ocean and dive deep the bottom and see 'two fishes fighting' be assured Brits are there instigating it" - Mahatma Gandhi

[@karenshadle365]

I was aware of that war, but i never heard about the massacres. Living in the US, I got the daily newspaper,watched the nightly news and thought i was well informed. Well, I now see I wasn't. Thank you,Simon.

[@aleksandarmicke1996]

You still aren't if this is the only video you watched as it is pretty one-sided, which is a bit surprising for one of his videos because they are mostly objective.

[@dorissonbass]

@@aleksandarmicke1996 And what would the 'other side' be of genocide?

[@anniikka]

@@dorissonbass Propaganda. Serbs have created a lot of propaganda over the years to justify what they've done. It's very much along the lines of what Russians have used to justify the original invasion of Crimea in 2014 and the 2022 invasion, which means it's a few facts embellished into complete fiction meant to hide just how evil it all really was.

[@VersusARCH]

Labeling 30,000 Bosnian muslim civillians killed in a country of 4 million people during 4 long years of war a genocide and ignoring 10,000 Serbian civillians killed during the same period is nothing but propaganda. More people got killed (both proportionally and in absolute terms) in shorter time in Gaza (population only 2 million) in the last year than in Bosnia in 1992-1995. Where is the genocide resolution proposal about that? Where is US intervention against Israel? Ah yes - unlike the Bosnian Serbs, Israel is a US ally so the US-controlled media portrays it differently...

[@random13627]

@@aleksandarmicke1996jebem ti boga there is no other side look at beograd and look at sarajevo you won’t see bullet holes in buildings but you will i’m bosnian land, mrs tamo

[@daftirishmarej1827]

Thank you for bringing this to light. Horrific, but learn people, learn! War never solves problems, just causes more

[@fishbed3805]

I have family in bosnia and i know that many of the survivors know about more stories like these that were never documented because they are still afraid to talk about it. Dont forget this was only 30 years ago

[@blacksoul3812]

As a current student im grateful my school has taught us students about this horrifying event and other genocides Never again

[@MrTexasDan]

What are the other genocides your school is teaching?

[@Cardan011]

Never again? Do you even pay attention to what’s happening in world right now? Or it’s selective “never again “?

[@MrTexasDan]

@@Cardan011 What happenings are you referring to?

[@Cardan011]

@@MrTexasDan you know what I am talking about, don’t be coy. You have internet look it up. I know it’s hard to go against your programming, look at more sources than Daily Wire.

[@MrTexasDan]

@@Cardan011 Ok, well I'll say what you find so hard to say. You think the war on terrorist Hamas is a genocide. I know why you don't say it ... even you believe it is too dumb a statement. You really should learn the definition of genocide. You insult the memory of true genocide victims.

[@richardbrewis436]

Intelligent and thoughtfully constructed mini-documentary, Into the Shadows. I like the quick format of your videos A masterful way to share knowledge. Thank you always for the content.

[@rainyday8360]

As abhorrent this was; you should also mention Alija Izetbegovic and his "Islamic Declaration" where his aim was to create Muslim enclave in Europe and cleanse it of all non Muslim elements in Bosnia. Entire villages of Croats and Serbs where wiped out only to be repopulated by muslims , i mean there was never a sizeable population of arabs or afgans (mostly turks) in Bosnia prior the war only to magically appear in villages and towns after he called for Jihad and promised them women. Burka, niqab or hijab where almost non existent in Bosnia nowadays its everywhere.

[@ksy6177]

So this was a reverse genocide? It's just races grabbing for power

[@arnelk9627]

Lol Its literally a booklet mostly critizying muslims. And saying Sweden looks more like muslim country then muslim countries. You never read it ofc. For those reading and are not serbian fascists I would recommend his second book, still relevant, called "Islam between East and West". He was philopher type, circumstances made him a war president. Wich is pitty, I think he would be far greater peace time president.

[@ksy6177]

@@arnelk9627 I have to go read it

[@rainyday8360]

I dont think you ever read it, he literally calls for political revolution in Europe where Muslims are majority. Yes its 32 pages long still this was his idea for Bosnian ISLAMIC future.

[@arnelk9627]

@rainyday8360 we got it. Kosovo joining soon. You just misunderstand or better yet project your own fears about what political awakening means.. His party voted in the first constitution of Republic of Bosnia and.Herzegovina, his and our values are represented in it. Only a fascist would and did oppose it. We fought them once, we gonna fight them again. But now well awake as a nation...and armed ;)

[@tonnywildweasel8138]

Good to give attention to this 👍 Cause people forget. And history repeats.

[@random13627]

and serbs hate when people talk about it

[@ПерунВид]

I suggest you get more info from other sources, really dig deep beyond "official narative". I am sure you will be more than suprised what you find out.

[@JKlein713]

While I lived in Denmark I met a young Bosnian guy who had come to Denmark as a child refugee. His parents had been killed. One of my friends, a crew chief on a Marine Black Hawk, was there pulling kids out.