Facebook Group 'Glorifies Srebrenica'

Belgrade | 11 December 2008 |

Some 6,000 people have joined a group on the Facebook social networking website calling for a group glorifying the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims to be removed.

The group has alerted Facebook administrators of the offensive content presented in the “Noz, Zica Srebrenica” (Knife, Wire, Srebrenica) group, calling for the immediate deleting of the group, which “promotes hatred towards all Muslims.”

Bosniaks (also known as Bosnian Muslims) make up the largest ethnic group within Bosnia and Herzegovina, which also includes Roman Catholic Croats and Serbs who are Orthodox Christians.

The name of the group refers to the detention in concentration camps and killing of 8,000 Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995, and promotes then Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic and military commander Ratko Mladic as war heroes.

Karadzic was arrested in July and Mladic remains a fugitive from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which accuses both as being integral in planning and undertaking the massacre, considered the worst atrocity of the last half-century in Europe.

The group, which was created on Monday, presents its content in Serbian Cyrillic script and has over 900 members.

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Comments:

Bosniak
2008-12-12 22:24:54

Is there some definition for the word "Bosniak".

'Srbe na Vrbe' facebook group
2008-12-13 05:44:58

What are we going to do about Facebook group 'Srbe na Vrbe', http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22343249457 which translates to 'Hang Serbs from Trees', which includes pictures calling to kill Serbs and members posting songs glorifying the mass death camp Jasenovac in which over a hundred thousand Serbs, Jews and Gypsies were killed in WW2 by Croats and Bosnian Muslims. A precedent has been set by closing the so called Serbian 'pro-genocide' group. We cant just pick and choose which genocide to ignore and which to take action against.

For Dusan
2008-12-13 14:45:43

Unfortunately we as Croats and Serbs have to come to terms with this new "Bosniak" nationality that the Muslims have designed for themselves.....and also this new "Bosnian" language And yet, I am still not against them having their own nationality. I believe every people should have this right. But what frustrates me is when you get Muslims/Bosniaks trying to teach us about our history and culture and trying to assimilate us into being just "Bosnians", which is their eventual aim. They must remember that during Yugoslavia they had to classify themselves as either Croats or Serbs, and it wasn't until 1974 that they had the right to declare themselves as "Muslims", let alone "Bosniak" which came in 1993. The language of Bosnia-Hercegovina during Yugoslavia was always "Serbo-Croatian", like it was for the whole country. I make these points, because of anything, and I'm sure you agree with this Dusan, Muslims/Bosniaks should be more grateful then anybody for having these rights. Instead, they look to question our idenity and ethnicty, which is very very hypocritical.

Sure
2008-12-14 10:43:30

Sure but it's not as cool as the origin of the word Serb or Serv, which means slave.

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