The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

Introduction
the Nazi occupation during World War II, or the Bosnian Muslims’ and
Izetbegovic’s service to the Nazis in that era. 29 )
Milosevic was under great political pressure to support those Serb
minorities. But although he did so sporadically, he certainly did not
fight regularly to keep all Serbs in one state. He either supported or
agreed to a series of settlements, like Brioni (July 1991), Lisbon (February-March
1992), Vance-Owen (January 1993), Owen-Stoltenberg
(August 1993), the European Action Plan (January 1994), the Contact
Group Plan (July 1994), and ultimately the Dayton Accords (November
1995)—none of which would have kept all Serbs in one state. He
declined to defend the Western Slavonian and Krajina Serbs when they
were ethnically cleansed from Croatia in May and August 1995. He
agreed to an official contraction in the earlier Socialist Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e., to Serbia
and Montenegro—itself now dissolved with the 2006 independence of
Montenegro and Serbia), which in effect abandoned the Serbs in Croatia
and Bosnia to their fate outside any “Greater Serbia.”
In short, calling Milosevic’s and the Serb minorities’ struggle to stay
in the shrinking Yugoslavia, or to merge into Serbia, a drive for a
“Greater Serbia” is an ideologically biased and even silly misreading of
the political dynamics involved. 30 That bias is also reflected in the fact
that the demonstrable drive of the Croatian leadership for an enlargement
of Croatia—a “Greater Croatia”—and the Kosovo Liberation
Army’s (KLA) fight for a “Greater Albania,” with an associated high
readiness to ethnically cleanse non-Croatians and non-Albanians, 31 has
never been given any attention in the Western media. Only targets of
the West have a drive toward a “greater” entity.
A fourth myth, constructed to support the view that Milosevic was
a hyper-nationalist who called on Serbs to aggress and ethnically cleanse
in the interest of a Greater Serbia, is that he made such a call in “notorious”
speeches made in 1987 and 1989. To take just a few samples from
a uniform propaganda line of the Western media: Milosevic “whipped
a million Serbs into a nationalist frenzy” (Time); he “gathered a million
Serbs at the site of the battle [of Kosovo Polje in 1389] to tell them to
prepare for a new struggle…Yugoslavia’s long nightmare of civil war was
beginning” (BBC in 2001). On another occasion, in 1999, BBC said of
the 1989 speech that “Milosevic vowed Serbia would never again lose
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