Islam Between East and West

They would target like these... villages where they were like Bosnians and Serbs... living together... so they would like target them specifically with... the... radio and instead of like the big cities... they worked up to the big cities but they really started in like specific sort of areas like in eastern Bosnia especially because there was like a lot of I think majority Muslim like villages in that area that would also have like nearby Serb villages... there was that there was... sort of taking over all the radio stations and kind of going full force... they think like in the sort of early days of the war... we're talking April May of 1992 they... would get... people like pretending that they were Bosnians they were actually Serbs and they would like talk about how they went to... kill all Serbs or something like that... they were like having people in concentration camps where they thought like started kind of putting them in those concentration camps initially they would make the victims in the concentration camps the Muslims basically... say that oh they're just there as a refugee and the Serbian army is like protecting them and they're making them feel really welcome and stuff... like that so it was right at the beginning between especially 89 to like 92 the propaganda was so visible and it really escalated and it was like suddenly everywhere and you would hear Karadzic and Milosevic talk about... the Muslims and the things that we wanted and... the things that the goals that we had which after all were not... nobody was saying it there wasn't like a single person that was saying these things that they were attributing... to us but that didn't matter what they were just doing was instilling enough fear and enough doubt in the population to eventually get them to take up arms when the time comes and unfortunately that's precisely what happened when the time came... a lot of people did take up arms whether or not they wanted to they had enough of that doubt and fear sewed in their minds over the course of... several years that they ended up feeling like I have to protect myself... they would like target them specifically with... like the... radio... and instead of like the big cities... they worked up to the big cities but they really started in like specific sort of areas like in eastern Bosnia especially because there was like a lot of I think majority Muslim like villages in that area that would also have like nearby Serb villages... there was that there was... sort of taking over all the radio stations and kind of going full force... they think like in the sort of early days of the war... we're talking April May of 1992 they... would get... people like pretending that they were Bosnians they were actually Serbs and they would like talk about how they went to... kill all Serbs or something like that... they were like having people in concentration camps where they thought like started kind of putting them in those concentration camps initially they would make the victims in the concentration camps the Muslims basically... say that oh they're just there as a refugee and the Serbian army is like protecting them and they're making them feel really welcome and stuff... like that so it was right at the beginning between especially 89 to like 92 the propaganda was so visible and it really escalated and it was like suddenly everywhere and you would hear Karadzic and Milosevic talk about... the Muslims and the things that we wanted and... the things that the goals that we had which after all were not... nobody was saying it there wasn't like a single person that was saying these things that they were attributing... to us but that didn't matter what they were just doing was instilling enough fear and enough doubt in the population to eventually get them to take up arms when the time comes and unfortunately that's precisely what happened when the time came... a lot of people did take up arms whether or not they wanted to they had enough of that doubt and fear sewed in their minds over the course of... several years that they ended up feeling like I have to protect myself... talking about Islamization talking about Ali Azebegovic's book he wrote when he was like I don't know 18 or or whatever like... and you know you know talking about World War II... everybody knows that there was a period in World War II where... a lot of Serbs were killed by the Ustasa and by the... Nazi collaborationist and I think obviously that's a real fear for... for a certain group of people who went through that so there was a lot of that as well... that's going to happen again... meanwhile there was no grand plan there was never even talks of... committing violence or even... talks of... seceding from Yugoslavia or anything it was all it was all set in motion by the Serbian leadership... and I think that's what people don't understand the Bosnian leadership while not perfect were simply reacting to what the Serbian leadership was in many ways making them do... they kind of push you and push you and push you until they're able to get... some sort of rise out of you or response out of you or or get you on that sort of offensive where you have to defend yourself you have to defend your identity you have to defend who you are you have to justify it... the you know this sort of propaganda campaign got there was... obviously the funny things were like things like they're going to make you wear the hijab but it was also very insidious because they would target like these... villages where they were like Bosnians and Serbs... living together and they're quite small but they knew that like in the village obviously usually have a gun or you know shotgun because of the animals or you know working or whatever so they would like target them specifically with... like the... radio... and instead of like the big cities... they worked up to the big cities but they really started in like specific sort of areas like in eastern Bosnia especially because there was like a lot of I think majority Muslim like villages in that area that would also have like nearby Serb villages... there was that there was... sort of taking over all the radio stations and kind of going full force... they think like in the sort of early days of the war... we're talking April May of 1992 they... would get... people like pretending that they were Bosnians they were actually Serbs and they would like talk about how they went to... kill all Serbs or something like that... they were like having people in concentration camps where they thought like started kind of putting them in those concentration camps initially they would make the victims in the concentration camps the Muslims basically... say that oh they're just there as a refugee and the Serbian army is like protecting them and they're making them feel really welcome and stuff... like that so it was right at the beginning between especially 89 to like 92 the propaganda was so visible and it really escalated and it was like suddenly everywhere and you would hear Karadzic and Milosevic talk about... the Muslims and the things that we wanted and... the things that the goals that we had which after all were not... nobody was saying it there wasn't like a single person that was saying these things that they were attributing... to us but that didn't matter what they were just doing was instilling enough fear and enough doubt in the population to eventually get them to take up arms when the time comes and unfortunately that's precisely what happened when the time came... a lot of people did take up arms whether or not they wanted to they had enough of that doubt and fear sewed in their minds over the course of... several years that they ended up feeling like I have to protect myself...