SITES OF SUFFERING OF SERB AND MUSLIM VICTIMS SHOW WHO ATTACKED WHOM

BELGRADE, MARCH 26 /SRNA/ - The Director of the Institute for Research on the Suffering of Serbs in the 20th Century, Milivoje Ivanišević, told SRNA that analyzing the locations of wartime casualties in BiH shows who attacked whom, as most Serbs were killed at their doorsteps, and Muslims mostly died away from their homes.

Ivanišević said that based on data from his books on the places where Serb victims perished during the 1990s war in BiH, he concluded that 85 percent of Serbs were killed in their own settlements, homes, and properties. Regarding the locations of casualties, by studying war diaries and monographs of 11 brigades of the so-called Army of BiH, Ivanišević found that only 10 percent of members of these units died in their own towns, while 90 percent died away from their places of residence. "That is a remarkable indicator of who attacked whom," Ivanišević said. He emphasized that countless Serb villages were attacked by Muslim units, armed Muslims from nearby Muslim settlements, who were never presented as soldiers carrying out attacks but as civilian victims. Ivanišević pointed out that 90 percent of "Muslim civilian victims" were actually armed Muslims attacking Serbs, meaning that 90 percent of the people counted as their civilian victims were in fact their own soldiers. According to him, Serbs were mostly attacked by Muslim neighbors from surrounding villages. He said that his analysis of Muslim civilian and military casualties revealed major deceptions in reported numbers, even by gender, as there are more male civilian victims than female among Muslims. Ivanišević stated that in civil wars, the aggressor is the one who "comes into your village to kill you," while the victim is the one killed in their own village. Ivanišević claims that the first president of Republika Srpska Radovan Karadžić, who is his close friend, told him in conversations that he never ordered any village to be attacked. He also noted that the Memorial Center in Srebrenica contains graves of fallen Muslim fighters, including those responsible for crimes, who are misrepresented as civilian victims. "They don't belong there. They should be moved to military cemeteries," Ivanišević said. He added that the analysis of all data from the war in BiH will not be completed anytime soon, as research on the Second World War has also not been fully completed.