The Bosnian Genocide: Europe’s Only Genocide Since WWII
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- Dive deep into the dark history of the Bosnian Genocide with this chilling documentary. Explore the context, atrocities, and aftermath of one of Europe's most tragic events. Brace yourself for a journey through the horrors of war and genocide.
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I'm Bosnian, and the worst thing about this war and genocide is about how fresh it all is. My mother's best friend is a woman who came from a Srebrenica concentration camp. She was there when she was only 17, and while she never tells anything, she's a skinny woman with a ton of health problems, most of which center around PTSD and female reproductive organs. She says often "whatever I've lived through, it would have been fine if any of my brothers or my parents survived". Another mom's friend is from Brcko, a small city northeast of Bosnia. She was in a concentration camp too, and, same as the previous one, has a ton of similar health problems. At least she has her brother alive, she says. Neither of them can have children.
You will notice that most of the victims of the genocide are men, and it might confuse you. Indeed, most men killed, especially in Srebrenica, were young, capable men. These men, however, were wholly unprepared, had no weapons, and were indeed civillians. As to why mostly men were targeted? Well, see, in Bosnia and Serbia alike, back in the 80s and 90s, the family line would continue by the male children, while girls would be married off into another family line- and when she does marry, she takes the surname of the new family, and completely moves into that family, calling her husband's parents her own (yes this is patriarchy at its finest, and it's changing a lot nowadays, but back then this was the case in most families). "Purity" before marriage was a big concept as well. So basically the plan was: kill off all the men and boys so the family line doesn't continue, assaulting girls for the fun of it, but also if she becomes pregnant, how great, she'll bear a Serbian child. Boys as young as 12 were killed, and many were saved only because their mothers managed to pass them off as girls somehow. "Pure" girls also were preferred by the soldiers, so they favored unmarried women. Women typically married at the age of 17-20 back then, especially in more rural places. There are only rare accounts of what women went through in this war, because of the shame culture- and when I say rare, I only ever heard of 3-4 from the entire country.
One thing that Simon didn't mention is how, after the Srebrenica genocide in particular, there was a huge action by Serb military forces to cover up their traces, so they took some trucks and tried to scatter around the mass grave sites, to make the bodies more difficult to find. Years later, when the excavations started to give the victims a proper religious burial, bones of one individual person would be found in multiple mass graves. Some people would be buried with only a few bones, the rest of the body never found.
I'd still like to point out, as a Bosnian, I feel like it's a responsibility of mine as well, that very little of what modern day Serbia and Bosnian Serbs are is responsible for this. Yes, there are still plenty of criminals who were never convicted, but outside of that, Serbia is a beautiful country and Serbs are generally hospitable people. It feels like whenever we talk about this, we have to preface that there is a difference between violent criminals and normal people who live in Serbia today, but this has to be mentioned and repeated. Serbia does not equal evil.
The little news coverage that made it all the way to Iowa deeply affected me. Seeing images of children who had never known a normal safe life especially. It made me wish I could scoop them all up in my arms and keep them safe. Thoughts like this still keep me awake at night if I don't take sleeping pills. All the little ones around the world who have never known what I took for granted growing up is so heartbreaking. I mean, the atrocities adults are subjected to disturb me as well but with the children it hits deeper, I guess. Hope that makes sense?
I know you don't need patronising from me, but thank you for sharing this perspective.
thanks
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A woman taking her husband's family's name doesn't seem like patriarchy to me, or if it is it isn't automatically negative.
The rest of that information is very important and interesting, so thank you for that also.
"Never again.. except for all the times it will happen again. But after those... never again!"
It's more like again and again and again...11,000+ civilians murdered in Ukraine by Putin , 30,000+ dead in Gaza and Israel
These days we don't just ignore them, we literally fund them lmao.
@@dylan-5287you'd think after the Holocaust, Rwanda, Bosnia and all the others we'd know a genocide right at the start but nope. The US is currently helping fund one in Palestine.
@dylan-5287 do yourself a favor and watch the video. You will learn what an actual genocide looks like.
@@TizBaz5 were gatekeeping genocides now? Certainly the scope can vary wildly.
Hi Simon, I've been following your channels for a number of years but I never thought I'd see a segment on the Bosnian genocide let alone the Višegrad massacres. Me and my family are originally from there. I lost several family members and relatives in the genocide, the youngest was my cousin, few months younger then me. I was lucky, he wasn't. On their behalf, thank you for drawing attention to the Bosnian genocide.
Englishman preaching about genocide.
My dad was being loaded onto one of those school buses when one of the guards told him not to get on. It was his childhood best friend. he spent about 6 months in one of the camps until the UN came and liberated them. He was 6'5" and weighed 46kg when he was rescued. His family all escaped physically intact but still has the psychological scars to this day. I'm glad to see a video about this because not many people know about this horror. He is currently raising money for Ukraine and Palestine because he knows genocide first hand. If this video upset you then please do the same.
I'm so sorry that your dad and your family went through that, my friend :/. I'm glad that they got out alive. I see that you play osrs, what level are you? If you need any help on osrs, feel free to respond, and we can connect on the game :).
Raising money for hamas, not Palestine... those criminals steal the food from their own peoples mouths and medicine from their hospitals while the virtue signallers continue to pour money into hamas so they can continue the war and murder of innocent civilians.
Yugoslavia was such a shock in a modern Europe. The events that occurred were unthinkable only a couple years prior. I mean Sarajevo held the Olympics less the 8 years before it was besieged for years.
It is, and the US and its peoples should take along hard look at those events, because they seem to be hell bent on repeating them.......
The unfortunate effects of the Cold War Yugoslavia stayed afloat and was prospering until they stopped getting funds from the Soviet Union and the US which led to hyperinflation that led. To a shitty economy that led to the rise of nationalism
@@gumpyoldbugger6944 Really? do tell.
I suspect that the school you are protesting has failed you in that you clearly do not know the definition of genocide.
@@gumpyoldbugger6944Not that I disagree, but it's always a bit surprising to see some advocates for western interventions in the middle east coming back.
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Simon,
I was in Bosnia for a year with the U.S. Army at the end of the war. I saw the brutalism first hand. You are right, people are not taught what happened. I tell anyone who will listen.
The testimonies of firsthand witnesses are essential to learning what happened and trying to learn from this history so we can try to avoid it again. I am glad you share your story. I hope you will write it down. History needs first-hand stories like yours. Thank you.
Except they are not just taught about it they are taught that this is a fucking genocide
You know we are heading in that direction again
@@LazarOrthodox04
What genocide?
Is the "palestinian genocide" video already in editing stage or is it better to wait for it to end first?
I was born during the tail end of this war. My father was an officer, therefore not only responsible for many soldiers, but also my mother and their family. My parents brought me into this world despite the risks, and thankfully most of us survived. The Dayton Accords were signed shortly after my first birthday, and we were eventually able to resettle in the US, where a relative happened to already be living.
My parents & other family members, friends, and many others within our local diaspora all wished to move on from the war, as it had irrevocably changed their lives. They always did their best to not only shield me and others of my generation from the horror and their trauma, but also preserving our culture/traditions as we navigated a strange new world. In fact, in the years since our cultural identity has never been stronger, and we've never forgotten what brought us to this point. Fortunately, most of us have since become citizens in our respective new home countries and have been able to forge brand new lives out of our shared suffering. I've been fortunate enough to visit my homeland multiple times throughout my life so far, and from what I've seen I'm happy to report that, while not perfect, things have been steadily improving over the past few decades.
It's easy to forget that whenever war breaks out, the people who suffer the most are civilians, just like you. Having almost everything you know and love taken from you is something no one should have to live through. When I was a kid, I once naively hoped that that was going to be the last war in human history, because I fundamentally couldn't understand why someone would choose to kill others based largely on arbitrary factors, regardless of their justification. I still don't.
Thank you for sharing your story
Thank you for covering this…a former teacher of mine was Bosnian and it means so much that you covered this 🩵.
Dont expect any knowledge. If you want facts i recomend ”unfinest hour” by brendan simms
Not sure what you fought over?
Was it religions again?
Language, just speak English.
Colour BS again? Stop listening to old drunk uncles.
Laws? Vote for changes and ask politicians if they support say abortion rights?
Why the killing ... Get over the past
make the world better.
We got many Yugoslavian refugees to Sweden during the 90's. To hear their stories is heartbreaking. Thank you for talking about these "less popular" conflicts!
They are not refugees, Im from ex Yugo, its mostly criminals going to your gold jewelry shops and stealing them
@@MonkeWithThaZa I disagree. Of cours you have the Yugo maffia and criminals too. But the once I have worked with were children when this happened and they are working hard to build a life here in Sweden.
@@MonkeWithThaZa you sound terrible. be better
@@Chikara199 Thats also true, I spoke for majority, now people are not stealing just working today I was also speaking about the past.
@MonkeWithThaZa There are a lot of statistics showing how many and how fast the bosnian refugees were able to adapt to the swedish society, meaning language, work and education.
Simon, thank you for covering this topic, the stories of the Bosnian war are not known to many. As a Bosnian I could not stop crying watching this video. All the best to you.
A friend of mine lived through it. She’s one of the kindest souls I know despite the horror. So much respect for her and her people.
In the mid/late 90s, I remember my elementary school having an assembly about the genocide (speaking about tolerance, with a guest speaker who was a Holocaust survivor and an Afghani woman who had also fled from war who became a teacher/aid(?) at my school). There was a group of Bosniak women who had moved into the area at the time and enrolled their kids in my school. I had never really thought about the fact that they were all women with female children who had moved into my neighborhood in a small town on the East Coast US, but now I understand why that probably was; it's sick and incredibly sad. Unfortunately, the few kids I had met didn't really get along with anyone in the area, either. At the time, I had no idea what kind of horrors they could have possibly been through, and on top of that, they were often bullied for being Muslim or just "different" in general. I hope those ladies are all doing alright now. It's good to learn about what happened, horrible as it is, as I was too young to understand at the time.
I've know a number of Bosnians who made it to my country during and after the war. One of the craziest things is that a lot of the enemies were their former neighbours and friends. How can you ever feel safe again anywhere or trust anyone after that?
Yea that's what civil war means
I respect the Serbs
@@Western-imperalismwhy?
@@nikolarosic5419 protected europe from radical Islam, don't get emotional about it
Serbs were way ahead for their time. Respect to the Serbs for protecting and defending their culture from jihad.
I've been following Simon for a very long time; and I've not heard him use the word "wicked" with such intensity (and so often) before in all my years of viewing.
He laid it on strong huh?
He knows how to use drama and tone for virtue signaling. Too bad Simon, like most westerners lack any sort of objectivity, research and intelectual honesty to back it up.
Exactly, because he's a BS western propagandist and a liar, but not to worry, these bullshit lies won't hold out forever.
I had a good friend who had escaped Yugoslavia with her parents to Toronto. They were Jewish and she eventually relocated to California. Her name was Ruth and she made jewelry. I still have a necklace she made for me. Thank you for covering this horrific story. When will Humans learn to get along?
Unfortunately we will all never get along completely but hating a person because they were born on a different patch of dirt than yourself is just something I will never understand. Even sillier here in america where even being born in the same hospital isn't enough, it just comes down to how dark your skin is. :(
@@sennadesillva🎯 makes no sense to me either! “I’m better cause I was born here” It’s such a bull sh*t excuse but sadly it still happens, and sadly probably won’t stop anytime soon if at all.
@rwxz75 Agree, but there’s a lot more to it for me. Grew up religious and got punished for every little thing they could find. But also think that *IF* there is a god he’s a pretty crappy one to allow all this horrible sh*t to happen over and over again…
Disproportional wealth will always cause people to find reasons to “other”. It always comes down to who can get what and who has to lose for them to do so.
Never. But no-one ever said we were actually smart either.
"You wont be needing them anymore" sending chills down my spine
I had a coworker about 10 years back who actually lived thru this and spent almost a year in a refugee camp. said he was lucky to be alive and happy to be in America.
or basically any other country other than
@@paddington1670met a Serbian policeman once here in 1995 Vermont!!! He was…..intimidating to be sitting next to. He said it was……BAD OVER THERE!!!!
A very good friend of mine in Germany,survived these massacres as a toddler along with her parents,her grandparents and dozens of her relatives didn't survive
I went to school with a girl who survived this (actually come to think of it, I went to school with a lot of survivors of genocides...)
As a child of divorce I was already well versed in not asking where someone's father was, it wasn't until my mum ended up talking to her mum that I realised why she had no male family members.
If the event in Srebrenica were a genocide she would not have survived it.
Women, children and the elderly were evacuated by the Serbs to the Muslim held areas of Bosnia. It was the men of the fighting age who died. Some were prisoners who were massacred but many were killed in combat while trying to break through to the Muslim held town of Tuzla. The breakthrough column suffered heavy artillery barrage. Nobody is denying that a POW massacre is a war crime. But labeling it a genocide is twisting facts for propaganda purposes.
@@VersusARCH "iT iS nOt A gEnOcIdE bEcAuSe PeOpLe SuRvIvEd"
Silence, chetnik!
Literally trying to finish writing a final about this today, thank you so much.
I was 3 years old when I became a refugee, my cousin and I together with our mothers had to flee during the night on a boat piloted by our grandpa, while our fathers stayed behind to defend the town.
I went to Bosnia in 1995 under the UN Blue Hats, We were a Force that had their hands tied behind their backs... At the end of 1995 the Dayton Peace agreement was signed and the UN was then removed and replaced with NATO. I worked under IFOR, the killings didn't stop ! We located so many mass graves... It was terrible, and yet those perpetrators all went free...
Thank you for your service! 🫶
Our school resource officer was a peacekeeper. He was never the same after he saw this with his own eyes... please never again.❤
Rest in peace to those that passed away. We must work to end genocides and never forget the genocides that are happening and have happened.
I love these videos, I think it's important to learn about and remember these past tragedies..but man does it make me furious!
For five years I used to work with a group of Bosnians and Croatians. Those that were adults in the 90s are the strongest people I've met. For one of these people whom I'm very close to, who was and is still like a mother to me, she smokes packs of cigarettes a day or she will be killed by anxiety. She has massive work ethic though, and does what she needs to provide for her children. She didn't talk much about when she lived there, and those stories she did tell send shivers down your spine, rivers literally running red with blood, bodies rotting in fields, spending weeks in the forest foraging for food. She also gave birth to her first child during this. But now she's settled down in America with her family and is beyond grateful for what this country has given to her. Her and her husband employed full time, her daughter an engineer in her 20s, she's proud and grateful. She'll give you the shirt off her back even if it meant her pain. Those times bred very strong people, and I feel for what they went through.
I grew up on stories of this war from my grandpa who escaped yugoslavia as a child. Didnt realize it wasnt common knowledge until waaay later. Thank you for covering it!
I actually went to school with some Bosnian refugees in the 90s, I think I was in 1st grade. At the time, I was too little to understand what had happened, though. So sad.
If your only source of information about the whole thing is just this clip i'm sad to say that you still don't understand it, but if u whish to there are YT clips that explain the whole thing properly and objectively.
Same here. In my class we had I think 3 Bosnians and 2 Serbs for a number of years. We got told they had to move to my country because of a war, and we had to be extra nice to them and help them learn our language, because some of their families had died.
You could tell there was mutual fear between the children in the beginning, but they soon became friends. I found it the most natural thing in the world that they would; they came from the same place, spoke the same language, and all had lived thru something horrible. I was too privileged to understand why the grown ups made it such a big deal. Why wouldn't we all be friends?
@@Omidion I never said it was, just giving my two cents on a video that had just uploaded.
@@lottaleissner497 Aww, yeah exactly!
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I was stationed in Germany 91-94. We knew about this stuff. Soldiers from my division got assigned to the UN peacekeeping force.
As a Dutch person, Srebrenica is absolutely known to us. A black mark in our history. I have friends who served in Dutchbat 3. We know.
Same here.
Srebrenica is pretty much synonymous with failure of the international community and mass executions in the name of genocide.
As a kid during that time. Us dutchies learn a little about it in school. So no matter the age, at least we know and remember.
I hope you know! It's a black mark in Dutch history indeed
@@keca.4324 also a black mark in NATO history, because the US and France both refused to help the Dutch, even though they were very aware of what was going to happen.
I remember being in middle school and learning about it on the news. It’s amazing how often we say “never again” and it happens again somewhere else within a decade.
as a Bosnian, thank you for this video Simon. you're an incredible man.
p.s. 4:20 the unofficial date when war broke out here was April 1st, not April 6-th. on April 1st Serbian security forces (members of the DB) on direct orders from slobodan milosevic, led by the notorious war-criminal zeljko raznatovic arkan crossed the border and attacked Bijeljina, a small bordering town btw Bosnia-Serbia. pre-war Bijeljina was a multiethnic town, Bosnians and Serbs made up about 50-50% in terms of population, now there is less than 5% of Bosnians.
just to add an interesting detail: my late grandfather (from Brcko, a town few dozen kilometres from Bijeljina) personally witnessed three members of the DB unit (he knew it was them because of their emblem on the uniforms) killing a woman on the street, took a photograph of the incident, but during that chaotic day while packing and rushing to escape from Brcko along with my mother and my brother, left it in the apartment that serb chetniks pillaged, robbed and burned to the ground along with his evidence of first mass crimes, slaughtering and ethnic cleansing of my people. but, to this day (i am 27 years old) i never hated or even insulted a single Serb citizen. i hate and despise the war criminals & the nationalism-orientated serbian government who still hasn't given up ambitions from Bosnia's territory, but i love normal and ordinary Serbs, and i consider them my brothers/sisters. ✌🏻
As a bosnian serb I 100% agree.
Over in North Carolina there are many Bosnian folks that came over as refugees back then. I've mostly met grandparents though, because their grandkids would need to translate for them at their appointments. The grandparents always seemed really stoic. Probably not very surprising.
I had a Bosnian friend as a lad and would go to his family's parties. The old guys would drink Slivovitz and tell me horror stories in rough English.
Yeah, same in Florida, I went to school with some Bosnian kids in elementary school.
My Uncle was a Canadian peace keeper during the war. His stories were horrible. I was only 12 when he told me them but I never forgot. He told me in one place they found the Serbs hung bodies on meat hooks in a smashed out butcher shop window. Another guy put heads in between his handlebars on his motorbike and would drive around... Looking back, I think I was too young to really understand what it takes to do this to another human. Thank you for covering this.
Thanks Simon. Clear, concise and important. Keep up the good work. Some people at least appreciate it.
Thanks for shedding some light on this tragic part of my country's history. Greetings from Bosnia!
Torn on liking this video, great video but such a sad point in human history. One heartbreak after another.
Simon often says something like “if you liked this or found it informative…” just for situations like this. You don’t have to feel like an AH for liking it. You appreciate the coverage. It raises awareness. Think of it that way.
@@randomperson6433thanks random person
Amazing how an individual killing an individual will get them life in prison but this guy only got 40 years for killing over 30k
And how long should have Lyndon B Johnson and Richard Nixon been convicted to rot in prison for killing 2 million in Vietnam?
Yes
It's almost like Courts are corrupt. Kinda like our USA courts 😮
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Thank you for this.
I went to high school with a girl whose family had fled Bosnia during these events. (I live in Tennessee, USA) She never talked about it. I think she just wanted to forget and move on. Thank you for bringing this terrible tragedy to modern attention. May we never forget.
Days and weeks after the genocide, I still remember occasionally people showing up from the woods with horrific stories of how Serbian army hunted them like animals. You cannot even describe horror in their eyes.
Not to mention stories of women who suffered in concentration camps, soldiers teasing them which one of their children they will kill next.
There are 1st class nazis still in power in Serbia today, and EU makes deals with them. It is such a disgusting state of the affairs.
"genocide"
Oh, I knew about it. My company was deployed to Hungary and my platoon was stationed in Slavonski-Brod. Just about every day I pulled security on the Bosnian side of the bridge on the Sava river. We would also conduct patrols into Bosnia and around Croatia up to the Hungarian border. We dealt with the locals on both sides, it was interesting times.
Thank goodness you are covering this. It was a hugely unspeakably wickedness.
Great video, very informative.
As I was a child during the Bosnian Genocide, the parents and my grandparents did knowing about this about the daily news and the newspaper and from refugee who can flee from Bosnia.
This all happened when I was in my late teens/early 20s. It was a real eye opener for me at the time. I just didn't understand how the hell people could do these things to each other. We're all human...
Thanks for covering this topic. Perfect material for Into the Shadows, and I've been waiting for the neutral'ish overview from this channel. :)
You randomly touched on it in the intro and now I'm desperate for a video on the Harrying of the North, a topic I know basically nothing about.
Thanks for reminding the world.
Thank you for covering this. My dad served in Bosnia.
He probably had committed many crimes
@@synaestesia-bg3ew Bell-end! Lots of people served in Bosnia for the UN, albeit how useless it mainly was, which is what the original comment was about.
@@synaestesia-bg3ew seems like something struck a nerve with you. You ok? Did your family commit these crimes?
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I wonder why Serbs used memories of WW2 to inflict horror on Bosnians. The fact that many Serbs still evoked their past horror endured during the WW2 to justify for their actions in Bosnia is shocking.
Every genocide I know of was committed from a position of a victim. The Germans killed Jews because they supposedly were the victims of international Jewry, the Turks committed genocide on Armenians because they supposedly wanted to protect themselves from Armenians working for the Russians, the Soviets committed genocide on Ukrainians to supposedly defend themselves from kulaks, fascists etc. No aggressors sees himself as the aggressor but the victim
Justify what? All we did was protect ourselves. Oh, and also, a little massacring on the side. Happens, it’s war. But genocide? Absolutely not.
@@fascistmonkeWhy cry about WW2 then? It was also just defense from Croatian side by your logic. Its war, it happens.
@@Ivan-gp4trYou can't compare ww2 with Bosnian war in ww2 after Germans occupied Yugoslavia Croats wanted to kill 1/3 of Serbs 1/3 to expel and 1/3 to assimilate and then Serbs started making uprisings. Bosnian war started because Croats and Bosnians wanted independence from Yugoslavia and Serbs from Bosnia wanted to stay in Yugoslavia or to be independent. Then war and war crimes started happening and all sides did them.
@@milutinpetrovic7775 But why Croats wanted to do it? Im not excusing them. But you were constantly through out history claiming their land, and all together just claiming that they are in fact Serbs and that they have not the right for their country. Plus many other provocations. There was a reason for their crimes, (im not saying its justified, its not), but they didnt do it because they were bored...
I live in south africa. I was in school in the early 90s and i recall a massive influx of Bosnian and Yugoslavian people. I made friends with lots of them and they told me of the horrors their families experienced. Some really sad stories. Thank you for the upload
I have watched probably a hundred videos across your different channels, covering many evil actions, but this is the first where I could see your (perfectly understandable) rage.
Thank you for choosing to cover this nonetheless!
If you want the truth, this is not the truth….before Srebrenica 30.000 serbs women children, grandparents, fathers were killed butchered, massacred….in Srebrenica only bosniak soldiers were killed….serb army evacuated the women children and older also young men that didn’t want to stay and fight….the bosniak didn’t have mercy for serbian women or children….that is the truth….but Bosniak with the help of Germany nazi regime with the US Bill Clinton did everything to cover the atrocities committed by the Muslim to fulfill the agenda from Croatia and Germany
I saw it. Smelled it.
My first deployment was to Bosnia in 1994. I've seen everything evil humans will do to. eachother. I've been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since. But my experiences in Bosnia has scarred me forever.
So why deploy again to afghanistan and iraq? The same thing happened there but instead you guys were the bad guys
@@shinren_ In Iraq and Afghanistan it was a shooting war. That's easy. Being a UN soldier and having to watch neighbours rape, burn and displace each other because of religion, ethnicity and ancient grievances is horrible.
@@NICOLAI_VET grape happened in iraq too because of american soldiers villages got bombed that had nothing to do with the war a lot of atrocities commited in those countries too by the west
@@shinren_yeah, you are right, but this is their perspective not yours.
@@shinren_ Iraq and Afghanistan were failures. We should never have tried to push our way life down on the Iraqi or the Afghan people. But everything is crystal clear in hindsight.
I fought the wars my government told me to. I have no regrets.
90s kid here 1st time I ever saw real war on TV was the yugoslav wars I didn't know what was going on at the time but when I saw images of the bodies my ww2 veteran grandfather told me "this is why we don't need more wars and don't you ever forget that you're are not better than anyone else because they're different from you."
My best friend & her family immigrated to Canada in 1998 from Bosnia. I never understood just how horrific the situation was over there. I heard stories but my brain could never comprehend just how bad it was.
I worked with a Serbian who was a kid when the war happened. He had some massive PTSD from it and never really got a chance to be a kid.
Knew a Serbian woman that was a soldier back then, she removed her ovaries after the war when she came to my country, she said she didnt want to bring kids in this horrible world.She was so broken, worked as a bodyguard, 2 meters tall and muscular.
How are serbian kids having ptsd? Its the bosnians that were in the middle of the war. I doubt serbian kids saw any of the war
@@shinren_ There were Serb children in Bosnia, and attrocities on all sides. The vast majority commited by Serbs, for sure, but still thousands on civilians died on all three sides.
@@shinren_ War crimes were committed on all sides.
Former friend’s & neighbours killing each other.
@@BellumCarroll gee wiz i wonder who started it
I grew up in St Louis. We have a massive Bosnian population. Grew up hearing stories from my friends about the war.
A friend of mine is a Bosnian refugee. She’s one of the most amazing women I know.
Thank you for making this video, some of my earliest memories as a young Australian were watching the Yugoslav wars unfold on the News, starting when I was about 6.
It was chilling watching and hearing of what was happening, such brutality was hard to comprehend as an Aussie, we're often so sheltered and in the early 90s as Europe went through the seismic shift of the Eastern Bloc transforming, such change was truly alien to Aussies.
Fortunately our country has proudly welcomed and sheltered many who've fled many conflicts, including the Bosnian War.
I've been fortunate enough to meet and know many people from all the former Yugoslav countries who've come to Australia, in particular we have thriving communities of Croatian and North Macedonian descent, and they've all been amazing people, who're happy to share their culture and form part of the patchwork of cultural influences in Australia.
May we never see anything this brutal, ever again. Anywhere.
Simon, thank you.
Thank you Simon thank u so much for narrating this.
As a Canadian who grew up close to a military base, I know dozens of people who went overseas to peace keep in Bosnia. The stories I’ve heard are amazing and disgusting.
Serbs were way ahead of their time. they had to deal with jihad.
@@ehaaron I'm a Croat from Bosnia. There wasn't any jihad in Bosnia.
@@zell863 there would've been if it weren't for the Serbs.
@@ehaaron No there wasn't and there will not be. It is bs. If Bosnians want jihad they can make it today in Bosnia and they do not do it.
@@zell863 because they are nicer than Serbs anyway.
I don't know what it is about this story I've watched you Simon choke down some of the most disturbing stories humanity has ever seen in a variety of contexts. Everything from war, murders, to serial killers. For some reason this story had me bawling my eyes out. I love your work these stories must be told
Thank you fore covering this dark part of ours history.
''Europe’s Only Genocide Since WWII''
That's a very bold claim under current circumstances.
This channel has always been Pro-Poorly disguised American military outposts pretending to be an ethno-state country
Between 1945 and 1992 nothing resembling a genocide happened in Europe. The Ukrainian war is being fought much more "cleanly" than the Bosnian one, so in my opinion it doesnt qualify. And palestine / israel are not in europe.
@@JusufBideovic how it does not qualify? russians are taking children to reeducate them, destroy schools and churches, claim ukrainians have no real identity and our language is just an accent. Also, Holodomor
@@JusufBideovic That's because the Soviet Union and today's Russia don't keep any records.
Russia fights clean? Civilian areas in Ukraine have been bombarded daily for the past 2 years.
Now Russia has even law that any new-born children of non-Russian citizens in occupied Ukraine have to be taken by the Russian state immediately. Where do those stolen children end up? Nobody knows. No records are being kept.
It's a bad idea to base truth on just ''Innocent until proven guilty''.
Truth doesn't care about what we can or cant prove.
@@JusufBideovic The war Russia is waging on Ukraine is not being fought" cleanly", -(are any wars?) There are now hundreds of thousands of war crimes that have been committed by Russians, and the rhetoric on Russian television is definitely genocidal with commentators declaring Ukraine does not exist that , Ukrainian culture does not exist, and speculating on what percentage of the Ukrainian population need to be exterminated in order to teach the rest obedience to Russia. Have a look at Russian Media Monitor by Julia Davis. She puts on the most popular Russian talk shows with subtitles. .
The world needs to know this.
It's literally a lie
can we please have more videos aboult recent history,
this was a interesting video , i have learned so much aboult what happened here
While I lived in Denmark I met a young Bosnian guy who had come to Denmark as a child refugee. His parents had been killed. One of my friends, a crew chief on a Marine Black Hawk, was there pulling kids out.
I live in St. Louis Mo and we had a HUGE Bosnian influx in the early 90s. I remember seeing signs that read "Urgently needed: Bosnian translators around Affton, Shrewsbury, South Side, and Bevo neighborhoods and a few yrs later the school I graduated from was almost 80% and had translators in every room. Good people, hard working and wonderful food culture!! Rakja is soooo yummy!! Most of the men I ended up working with in factories had the same story.... 8-10k slaughtered in their town/village. Every one I ever met had left family and friends behind either dead already or soon to be and that's the way it was. I was shown video of bullets striking the rear of a vehicle as one of my coworkers was fleeing his town. Totally fleeing under machine gun fire.. Never once heard any of the women speak of their tragedies, just the men. They have very much made their lives and futures her in STL and contribute wholeheartedly. I have befriended many in my different employments around town and I respect and regard them highly. The older ones have been through it so the young ones can have the lives they do and never know ethnic cleansing, bc we don't do that shit here in America. I feel for them in many ways for there is a distinct and general sorrow that comes with knowing the older ones and horrors survived.
Bosnian refugee here born in 94 came to stlouis in 96 and has been home ever since. Thanks so much for the kind words we work hard and are appreciate of the free world we were given here. I went and fought in ukraine and got wounded. .
@@HarisHuskic-gp1ni there is a fight to be fought here now too I'm afraid... they call it a "cultural revolution" it's just communism in disguise.
@@HarisHuskic-gp1nihvala bogu da si ziv
Getting cheap labor out of Bosnia was one of the reasons the West tacitly allowed the war to happen. It's a new, convoluted way of reducing labor prices (it used to be achieved with slavery a few centuries ago).
US mostly outsources ethnic cleansing to foreign countries, except for that against our indigenous populations, of course, that we usually forget about, but there was also the massacre of the black community in Tulsa, OK in 1921.
I didn’t need to learn about it, I lived through it.
My condolences man, hope you’re in a better place despite all you went through
No one cares
If you lived through it, it’s most important for you to learn about it. You may already carry a bias and you don’t know it.
@@CM-lw3qf Crawl back to your hole, Smeagol.
@@CM-lw3qf son,why don't you go help ur mumy with dishes or something,cuz,WHO TF GIVED U IPAD
Thank you for putting focus on these people and the utter destruction that was done to them. I am curious though...With so many times this type of atrocity has been repeated throughout our history; does our species not learn from our past so we can have a better future?
That's great you used your platform to increase awareness about this genocide! Its so fucked how ignored it is, people might just care about the threat of fascism more if more people are taught about fascist stuff like this.
people are horrible to eachother whenever they get the chance. distasteful and saddening.
to quote shakespeare : "Hell is empty, and all the demons are here"
Yep
I was hoping this might eventually be covered ❤🙏💯
I used to work with a woman who lived in Bosnia during the war. She left shortly after, but she didn't talk about it much but tell she was still suffering from it. We all tried to shield her from certain things such as loud noises. We worked in a nursing home and when a resident passed away and were being brought out for the final time we would tell her to stay off the floor for a bit. Seeing the resident bring brought out would trigger her.
Holy crap that was chilling.
Stories like these just infuriate me.
Feels weird to hit the like button, but it's important to know this stuff
Simon, Please, more of this; modern history. Thanks 😊
Canadian General McKenzie and his troops committed rape against Muslim female prisoners that they were supposed to protect.
My mother worked at a restaurant run by a Serbian family at the time this was all getting really bad. I remember hearing updates on how their family was doing and it was terrifying.
You don't mention that this was a genocide based on religion. The Serbs wanted to rid the area of the Bosniaks (Muslim Bosnians) to "right the wrongs of the Ottoman empire". I met many young Albanian and Kosavar Muslim men in the early 2000's who were refugees (I was a young man at the time too) and the few stories that they'd shared were unbelievable and they also had a strong hate for Bosnian Christians. Hard young men and as I get older the more I see why.
Then explain the fact that Serbs and muslims of Western Bosnia under Fikret Abdić were allies and that there was no war in Raška area of south of Serbia which has a large muslim population...
@VersusARCH Make a poll if any of the commentators has ever heard of Jasenovac
25 years in prison for heading a massacre is a god damn joke if you ask me.
He made europe safe against radical Islam, I love the Serbs 🇷🇸 🇷🇸 🇷🇸 🇷🇸
@@Western-imperalism Russian Bot has arrived.
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Damn Simon! How many channels do you have? Lol. Seems like every day I find a new one 😊
Good to give attention to this 👍
Cause people forget.
And history repeats.
and serbs hate when people talk about it
Bosnian here, got out in 97 to Sweden. Can just say that no side can say they won, everyone lost someone. Lost my father in 94 and recovered his bones in 2015 thx to forensic team from US. And people still suffer by coruption down there. All in all war is sh*t.
Sorry about your loss, couldn’t even begin to imagine what it’s like losing a parent whilst fleeing from your very home all whilst not understanding why people would want to commit such unspeakable actions against other people over ethnic differences.
Americans and their European allies won. They put Bosnia under their own military occupation (under the guise of UN peacekeeping) and turned it into a source of cheap and labor imports a new market for their exports, and they earned some money by covertly exporting arms and goods at inflated prices to the warring parties. All the while barely losing a soldier in the process since the locals, whom they helped antagonize against rach other, mostly fought each other.
@@VersusARCHrepublica Srpska was part of the conspiracy. They were on the side of the deep state and were ordered to massacre as many Bosniaks and Croats as possible
@@VersusARCHOh just shut up
Lots of Bosnians here in Phoenix.
It really is a surprising number isn’t it. My Gf is Bosnian and thru her I’ve met about 30 more and then we discovered about 6 families live in my complex… was shocked how many are around, funny enough so was she.
I was 16 when this happened, I remember it being on the news. I didn’t grasp the horror of what was happening, looking at it now, I’m lost 😢
'Quo Vadis, Aida?' is a really good movie from the perspective of someone who is living through the genocide. I have a lot of Bosnian friends and its a movie they all highly recommend
The atrocities committed in Bosnia by all sides combined, while terrible, do not amount to a genocide. It's a term used for propagenda purposes.
@@VersusARCHthey were targeting ethnic groups what else would you call it.
I hope that Helge Meyer and his Ghost Camaro helped the people get the supplies and food that they needed in Yugoslavia , when nobody wanted to go such a war torn place, one man still had compassion for his fellow humans
Everyone likes to think that these atrocities are a thing of the past, when humanity was younger... Nope. This happened at the same time that I, and probably a few of you, was coming home from school and worried about playing the new Sonic game. I didn't even learn about this till my last year of high school, which was almost a decade later. Absolutely disgusting and reprehensible
We had a band made a song back then in my country, one of the lyrics was "you watch all this in the news while you eat".
@havocgr1976 To quote another song, 'it's sad, but true.' It's like even if you did hear about it on the news, it'll be presented in a way that greatly downplays the severity of what's going on. They'll also attempt to dehumanize & retard the intelligence of not only the perpetrators, but the victims as well. That way, it seems so distant and removed from us that most people don't question their leaders or politicians about their inaction on the issue, nevermind their culpability in the crimes. Someone smarter than me once said, 'All that's necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing'. Well, here's your case-in-point
Yes and the Nazis were gassing and burning millions of people in ovens a mere 33 years before I was born and I used to play sonic in the 90’s as well. This is not ancient history this is almost current in the long arc of time.
We had an IFOR/SFOR depot in Bugojno in the middle of BiH. When we opened it in 1996 all of the staff were Bosnian Muslim. Over the years gradually some Croatians and Serbs returned and worked there as well. By 2001 they would sit together and agree how stupid the war had been and how much each group had suffered. This gave me a bit of hope. But they all said that it could easily happen again......
During the old communist Federal Yugoslavia the often quoted party slogan was "brotherhood and unity" for 45 years. That proved to be another big commie lie.
I grew up during the war in Bosnia. I witnessed a lot of horrible things that even now is hard to talk about, my dad was captured and taken to a concentration camp and for years we didn’t know if he was even alive and years later after his release we managed to Australia but even today it’s hard with people telling me it didn’t happen or it wasn’t that bad because the media only reports on what happened in Srebrenica which was horrendous but that was happening all over Bosnia and even today a lot of places in Bosnia are Serbian run. Just recently my auntie had to go and try to identify her husband and she only managed to because of the shoes he was wearing when the serbs came and took him she even told me that she tried to give him a jacket but the serbs said hes not going to need it where hes going.
As a current student im grateful my school has taught us students about this horrifying event and other genocides
Never again
What are the other genocides your school is teaching?
Never again? Do you even pay attention to what’s happening in world right now? Or it’s selective “never again “?
@@Cardan011 What happenings are you referring to?
@@MrTexasDan you know what I am talking about, don’t be coy. You have internet look it up. I know it’s hard to go against your programming, look at more sources than Daily Wire.
@@Cardan011 Ok, well I'll say what you find so hard to say. You think the war on terrorist Hamas is a genocide. I know why you don't say it ... even you believe it is too dumb a statement. You really should learn the definition of genocide. You insult the memory of true genocide victims.
Isnt this the war/conflict that the movie Behind Enemy Lines uses as a backdrop? I do believe it is. What little they did show of it gave me nightmares.
When I was 10 years old a little girl on the school bus who was new to the school told me she was from Bosnia and her family was dead from a war, I wish I could remember her name. When I was 16 a teenager named Juan moved onto my street from Colombia and told me his dad was killed by people who took their farm. I'm grateful to live in the West (Canada). This world is full of cruelty and horrors.
Strangely enough, as an American, I knew about this as a child and how all governments just looked the other way.
They did not look the other way. They helped serbia
NATO literally went to war with Serbia and bombed into the dark ages cause it was doing this.
@@jonaspaulsson9912 Um, no.
@@MrTexasDan really? What do you call upholding an illegal arms embargo on Bosnia while serbia had all the weapons they needed? Didnt that in fact help serbia?
What do you say about sending un troops to Bosnia so the serbs had potential hostages thus making it very easy for serbia to attack srebrenica since nato could not bomb them.
In the spring of 94 swedish un troops took over the siege of sarajevo following the markale massacre. The serbs regrouped to Gorazde and attacked in april killing a 1000 people.
Moron
@@MrTexasDan so you are not familiar with the arms embargo or the un troops?
I was 12 years old when it started in Slovenia and Croatia. We lived in Bosnia, my grandfather was a colonel in the YPA, and I remember him sitting in his chair in the living room, smoking cigarettes with Tito’s big portrait on the wall saying something like “This will set us back 100 years, and we all deserve no better, we voted for the people who will cause everything what was built from rouins to turn back to rouins, those in power are no different then those who voted for them”. Not long after, he retired from the army with the help of a doctor that was a family friend and he wrote that he is not fit for service anymore, and not long after that the shells started falling on our town. We luckily had a house in the village and that is where I spent most of the war with my grandparents, grandpa was broken that the army in which he served for 30 years was shooting at him and his family, sadly he did not live to see the end of war, he started drinking heavily and died in early 1995, watching him turn from someone that was respected and greeted in the street by everyone to a drunk was something that will haunt me forever. By the time war was over I had not seen my parents for over 2 years, and it was so strange for the first time, I could not believe it was them, they looked different from the outside, and even more from the inside. So many things I could write, like how I forgot how chocolate tastes, how since we got our clothes from donations, I was always thinking how did the person wearing the shirt that was on me looked like, did they have a family and were they happy… In one of the packages I even got a picture from the people who sent it, they were two boys (brothers) from somewhere in England, one was named Matthew, they even wrote the adress on the back and I wanted to write them a letter as soon as the war was over and thank them for the toys and clothes, but sadly the picture got lost somewhere in the house, and I don’t go there often, it’s too hard for me to re live those memories… but whoever they are, I wish to thank them, in the darkest of days that photograph was a reminder that normal life countinues somewhere behind all those burning towns and villages, and that it will return if I was patient enough.
No matter the side, my heart goes out to everyone whose experiences were like mine, and there are probably millions, may it never happen again to anyone, older people forget that first victim of war is childhood. God bless you all.
god lives in Croatia.
I remember this being on the news, when I was a kid. It's horrifying that younger generations aren't learning about this in school.
It's a good thing they aren't learning western lies in school.
Was there, saw what they were all capable of but you know what. Went back 20 years later and couldn’t see any signs of war without looking hard so that restored my faith in humanity
I can confirm that is was as Nightmarish as it sounds as my brother was assigned to a UN investigation team after the war they went around digging up these mass graves to confirm war crimes and the horror he saw still gives him nightmares to this day.