19/01/1993 | Voices from the Drina

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The Muslim side has supported the concept of a civil Bosnian state because they have trusted in their own birth rate and their own numerousness. Were we to accept the Muslim proposal on Serb statehood, we would lose it within an hour, and we would become a national minority in an Islamic state.

The Croats and Muslims will continue this war because they are emboldened by the support of Islamic countries and some Western countries, while we stand alone.

If we are to believe sayings, the Latins are old cheaters, but no one lies like a Turk. There is nothing we can gain from negotiations. We must defeat them militarily and not repeat the mistake from the last two wars. What was this mistake? That we defeated them but did not punish them.

🧵 We are finally facing the question of whether the Serb people can and must stay in its centuries-old heartlands, in the land of the Njemanjić dynasty, or if it should move out forever from this area and find a new territory for its living space.

This question becomes inevitable when Turkey, supported and aided by Germany, does not hide its ambitions to return to its former position in the Balkans, in Europe and in the Middle East, on the ruins of the former Soviet Union and following the traces of the former Ottoman Empire.

This desire is backed by 50,000 Turkish elite troops who could immediately enter military action in the former Bosnia and Herzegovina. 50 Islamic countries have relentlessly insisted upon this contingency at the Jeddah summit.

The Serbs are a people of peace, and we are only fighting well now against our will because we are defending our own threshold, because our families are threatened.

What is especially painful for the Serb people in this hour of collapse, is that a nation like the Serbs, which survives for the third time in its history a genocide committed by the Muslim sect and the hands of the Ustaša, can be declared itself a genocidal nation.

First, the Turkish empire drove us out of our hills and our fruitful lands to the mountaintops, creating an area for Turkified Serbs who today call themselves Muslims. Then the communist government developed exclusively Muslim and to some extent Croat regions.

We are not afraid of Turks, nor Islamic or Jihadi fanatics.