28/08/1993 | Voices from the Drina

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Europe, led by Germany and Austria, believe that the Muslims and Croats did not start the war, as do unfortunately America which is our long-standing ally and we theirs, but due to the interests of the Arab nations, is supporting the Muslims.

Grujo Lalović, @lalovićgrujo: Sarajevo is the capital of Republika Srpska, and whoever hands over the capital, will be handing over the whole state.

In the region of Trnovo and in the south of Sarajevo, we must build the concept of Serbdom and Serb forces, so that the Muslim enclave of Goražde remains cut off from the free urban area, in other words from free Sarajevo.

Due to the UN’s ultimatum that the Muslims must get 30% of territory, which does not belong to them, we Serbs have been brought to a point where we have to give our ethnic space to the Muslims and Croats. This is economically and historically unacceptable and painful.

There won’t be peace in the Balkans until Bosnia is split into two parts. This is the land of the South Slavs, and in it should live Croats and Serb Muslims who wish to declare themselves as Serbs of Muslim faith. And those who don’t want to should go to Pakistan.

I smoked my first cigarette today. After translating a daily report for a Danish UN policeman, he gave me a pack of Kim Menthol. I didn’t know what to do with it. I asked him. He told me coldly to “sell them”. I didn’t want them to end up on the black market, so I smoked them.

The question presents itself of what we will do to make Sarajevo Serb. Sarajevo must be Serb Sarajevo. Otherwise it will either belong to the Muslims or it will be a divided city.

Our generals have signed around ten agreements: on Srebrenica, on this on that. I see absolutely nothing other than huge mistrust and huge fear, lest I say paranoia, that we will lose everything. We hold 72% of Bosnian territory.

We helped the Croats. Not because Mr. Karadžić or I love them but because we also had to bring Srebrenica to breaking point. Srebrenica has been a Serb triumph on the world stage. The triumph of our political and military victory and of Serb minds.