17/12/1992 | Voices from the Drina

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Thousands of unarmed volunteers from besieged Srebrenica are joining our freedom fighters in a liberation mission for Sase village.

The concept of “safe areas” for the enclaves in Bosnia should only be a last option. In the absence of a political settlement, protected camp-like situations would risk being perpetuated.

🧵 We find ourselves in a war which was officially declared on us, and brutally imposed on us. We have already spent eight months defending our own homeland, establishing borders between ourselves and our enemies and…

… trying to place our people behind our borders and to protect them from the genocide which has been intended for them.

Despite the fact that the Croat-Muslim side announced this war, in the international community there is still a very active propaganda which says that the Serbs will not relent, that one must shoot at us in order to force us to negotiate.

🧵 We must firstly guarantee that humanitarian aid can be delivered on a planned basis to every Serb, Croat, and Muslim village, under our escort. But there cannot then be any excess or manipulation of our people.

In no village does a UNPROFOR soldier die by accident. Individuals and even neighbouring states set about manipulating the people, then they take out women and place them in front of the convoys. Then we have to get involved.

This is what the Muslims can hardly wait for. We must understand the following: Srebrenica does not need food. They have been far better prepared than we thought. We have been blind to this.

We weren’t looking and the Muslims have been hoarding clothes, shoes, food, munitions… We are guilty for not looking. The Muslims can hardly wait for an aid convoy to be attacked, as an excuse for intervention from the international community.

We have against us a very organised Muslim force, which every day becomes more dangerous thanks to the fact that they have generous and selfless help from Islamic countries.