11/03/1992 | Voices from the Drina

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Like rarely before in its recent history, the Serb people of Bosnia and Herzegovina have shown all their strength and all their determination to never be a servant or slave to Islamic extremism.

We are witnessing the birth of an Islamic island within our country.

An independent Bosnia as it is being offered by veiled Islamic fundamentalism is not acceptable to the Serbs of Bosnia. It would be equal to the empire of the Ottomans, which remains in our memory.

The Serb nation must not, within the borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina, fall under the domination of the majority nation, that is, the Muslim national community.

Alija Izetbegović envisages a new Bosnian pashaluk in the form of a sovereign and independent Bosnia, and himself a modern vizier. He wants to establish the border framework of Bosnia through sovereignty and transform them into an Islamic state.

Now our Serb people are in a situation where they could once again be imprisoned and, after that, perhaps destroyed, converted to Catholicism or Turkified, or at the very least deprived of their rights and turned into a national minority.

We don’t want anything Muslim.

We have no need to beg Muslims, Croats, Europe, the East, or the West to give us something which is already ours, which we already have, which God has given to us through our forefathers.

Muslims want this region in its entirety to be their republic and to rule over everyone else.

We must maintain strong links with peoples who share our people’s fate. These are Jews, Armenians, and Coptic Christians. God has helped us by putting a Coptic Christian at the top of the UN (Boutros-Ghali) and perhaps he will help us through his understanding of our problems.