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🇷🇼 Rwanda to Srebrenica: United in Memory As genocide survivors, we speak to you not just as partners — but as sisters and brothers who share the pain of loss and the weight of memory. Time passes, but grief remains. We understand the burden. Like you, we…
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🚨🇧🇦 No longer a fugitive: Milorad Dodik questioned, detention lifted
He was brought before the BiH Court, where detention was officially lifted, as the grounds no longer exist.
🎙️ Dodik’s surrender was secretly negotiated through intermediaries, including a state agency director from Banja Luka and a family member (Vico Zeljković). WhatsApp messages reportedly confirm these arrangements.
💬 In a tapped call, one of Dodik’s lawyers informed him:
> “One of the judges from the Appeals panel is taken care of… We’ll handle the rest.”
🕵️ Inside sources claim the deal was to surrender voluntarily, get questioned, and in return, have detention revoked — portraying the suspect as "cooperative." This deal led to the disbanding of the original prosecutorial team, with the case handed solely to Vedrana Mijović — daughter of former SNSD official Slavko Jovičić.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/BalkanMonitor
He was brought before the BiH Court, where detention was officially lifted, as the grounds no longer exist.
🎙️ Dodik’s surrender was secretly negotiated through intermediaries, including a state agency director from Banja Luka and a family member (Vico Zeljković). WhatsApp messages reportedly confirm these arrangements.
💬 In a tapped call, one of Dodik’s lawyers informed him:
> “One of the judges from the Appeals panel is taken care of… We’ll handle the rest.”
🕵️ Inside sources claim the deal was to surrender voluntarily, get questioned, and in return, have detention revoked — portraying the suspect as "cooperative." This deal led to the disbanding of the original prosecutorial team, with the case handed solely to Vedrana Mijović — daughter of former SNSD official Slavko Jovičić.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/BalkanMonitor
Balkan Monitor
🚨🇧🇦 No longer a fugitive: Milorad Dodik questioned, detention lifted He was brought before the BiH Court, where detention was officially lifted, as the grounds no longer exist. 🎙️ Dodik’s surrender was secretly negotiated through intermediaries, including…
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Rule of thumb: There is no civilization in Europe, no culture in Europe, and no future in Europe. The exception that proves the rule is Bosnia. Its heroes are not criminals in disguise; its heroes truly existed and were not invented a hundred years after historical events for some theatre of false pride.
It is not rich or wealthy because it did not plunder Africa, Asia, or the Americas. What it has, it has earned—and from what it has earned, Europe has stolen and destroyed through its corporate cancer.
Bosniaks are cynical, sarcastic, and pessimistic because they are capable of differentiating right from wrong, mistakes from correctness, and loss from victory—unlike the rest of the continent, which is incapable of any of those. Bosnia feels shame and guilt when it makes a mistake or fails; the rest of Europe is incapable of even that.
The faith that we have is a faith, not an instrument or tool of control for the powerful. It rejects hypocrisy and recoils from it—it does not get drunk on it like the rest of the continent.
Its people have evolved and changed over time, from the backwater of Christian medieval Europe into the light of Islamic civilization. They carry that light within their souls and have never abandoned it, even when threatened with death and destruction.
That is the tragedy of this continent: it has not changed, it has not evolved. The makeup always fades and must be replaced. And we, unlike the rest of it, are despised precisely because we have managed to evolve.
That is self-evident. That is measurable. That is truth.
It is not rich or wealthy because it did not plunder Africa, Asia, or the Americas. What it has, it has earned—and from what it has earned, Europe has stolen and destroyed through its corporate cancer.
Bosniaks are cynical, sarcastic, and pessimistic because they are capable of differentiating right from wrong, mistakes from correctness, and loss from victory—unlike the rest of the continent, which is incapable of any of those. Bosnia feels shame and guilt when it makes a mistake or fails; the rest of Europe is incapable of even that.
The faith that we have is a faith, not an instrument or tool of control for the powerful. It rejects hypocrisy and recoils from it—it does not get drunk on it like the rest of the continent.
Its people have evolved and changed over time, from the backwater of Christian medieval Europe into the light of Islamic civilization. They carry that light within their souls and have never abandoned it, even when threatened with death and destruction.
That is the tragedy of this continent: it has not changed, it has not evolved. The makeup always fades and must be replaced. And we, unlike the rest of it, are despised precisely because we have managed to evolve.
That is self-evident. That is measurable. That is truth.
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🇲🇾🇧🇦 One of our guests comes from Malaysia.
He was a NATO soldier stationed in Sarajevo in 1996 — today, he’s back as a tourist. ❤️
He was a NATO soldier stationed in Sarajevo in 1996 — today, he’s back as a tourist. ❤️
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🕌 Structural Details of the Rebuilt Kotezi Mosque
The minaret's base is constructed from broken stone in the shape of a truncated cone – standing 3.30 meters high with a base diameter of approximately 3.80 meters. The cylindrical shaft rises 5.20 meters from the base to the dome.
The top of the minaret is built from stone in the form of a dome with a base diameter of 2.20 meters. The total height of the minaret is 8.30 meters, or 9.50 meters when measured from below, since the mosque complex is built on a steep slope.
The body of the minaret is made from broken limestone. Its outer diameter is 2.50 meters, inner diameter 1.50 meters, and the walls are 50 cm thick.
📜 Historical Damage:
The mosque was significantly damaged during the Herzegovina Uprising (1875–1878), when its roof was destroyed. A pre-WWII photo shows it was later repaired and roofed.
However, in 1942, the mosque and adjoining mekteb (Islamic school) were heavily devastated.
The minaret's base is constructed from broken stone in the shape of a truncated cone – standing 3.30 meters high with a base diameter of approximately 3.80 meters. The cylindrical shaft rises 5.20 meters from the base to the dome.
The top of the minaret is built from stone in the form of a dome with a base diameter of 2.20 meters. The total height of the minaret is 8.30 meters, or 9.50 meters when measured from below, since the mosque complex is built on a steep slope.
The body of the minaret is made from broken limestone. Its outer diameter is 2.50 meters, inner diameter 1.50 meters, and the walls are 50 cm thick.
📜 Historical Damage:
The mosque was significantly damaged during the Herzegovina Uprising (1875–1878), when its roof was destroyed. A pre-WWII photo shows it was later repaired and roofed.
However, in 1942, the mosque and adjoining mekteb (Islamic school) were heavily devastated.
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🕌 Structural Details of the Rebuilt Kotezi Mosque The minaret's base is constructed from broken stone in the shape of a truncated cone – standing 3.30 meters high with a base diameter of approximately 3.80 meters. The cylindrical shaft rises 5.20 meters…
According to oral tradition, the mosque was built by Mujo Kotezlija after the Ottoman conquest of Herzegovina. Acting on behalf of the Sultan, Mujo distributed land in Popovo Polje as erazi-emirija to local residents and used collected taxes to build the mosque in Kotezi.
Erazi-emirija refers to a special category of land regulated by the Erazi Kanunname — where ultimate ownership belongs to the state, and private users have limited rights of disposal.
🪦 Behind the mosque is a grave surrounded by stone slabs with a headstone (nišan) bearing no innoscription — believed to be the burial site of Mujo Kotezlija himself.
Erazi-emirija refers to a special category of land regulated by the Erazi Kanunname — where ultimate ownership belongs to the state, and private users have limited rights of disposal.
🪦 Behind the mosque is a grave surrounded by stone slabs with a headstone (nišan) bearing no innoscription — believed to be the burial site of Mujo Kotezlija himself.
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Battle for the Truth: What Did the CIA Really Know About Srebrenica?
Why did the CIA stay silent while genocide unfolded in Srebrenica?
Where are the Predator drone videos of civilian massacres?
Why were the most damning pieces of evidence—linking Serbia to the genocide—kept in deep secrecy?
Some answers lie in recently uncovered White House documents—trannoscripts of conversations between Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin from February and April 1993. Yet, 30 years later, many haunting questions still hover over Bosnia. Even with some archives open, much remains in the shadows.
🔍 “What exactly did America know about the looming catastrophe in Srebrenica—and when did it become aware of it?”
🛰️ “Is there live drone footage of the massacre?”
📞 “Did the CIA intercept communications between Belgrade and Mladić prior to the genocide?”
🗃️ “What remains hidden in the ‘mountain of evidence’ guarded by politicians and intelligence agencies?”
These questions, and more, were raised in a crucial 1996 New York Times article noscriptd "Bosnia: What the CIA Didn’t Tell Us." Despite the passage of time, many of these questions are still unanswered.
✍️ Investigative journalists Charles Lane and Thom Shanker were among the first to break this taboo, revealing suppressed intelligence. They detailed internal U.S. battles over access to CIA files—many of which had been jealously guarded.
📆 Why is this 1996 article being revisited now? Because our battle for the truth isn't over. We are still searching for mass graves. We are still searching for our murdered. And we are still fighting for the full truth about genocide in Bosnia.
💥 Madeleine Albright first presented undeniable evidence of genocide to the UN Security Council on August 10, 1995, following fierce resistance from CIA leaders.
📩 That same year, ICTY Chief Prosecutor Richard Goldstone protested directly to the U.S. Embassy in The Hague. Only then did the CIA begin to cooperate. As a result, at least 15 mass graves were identified.
🗣️ Insider accounts from the Clinton administration confirm:
Audio recordings of Belgrade communicating with Mladić exist.
Predator drone footage from over Srebrenica was archived.
One CIA source revealed a chilling exchange:
> “There’s still a week to go,” said a voice from Belgrade.
“Hey, Mladić, aren’t you going to Srebrenica?”
Mladić replied: “Of course I am. I’m not done yet. I’m also going to Goražde and Žepa.”
🧊 Why did Western intelligence remain silent during the genocide? Why was Serbian involvement hidden?
Again, look to the Clinton–Yeltsin meetings. On April 3, 1993, at the Vancouver Summit, Yeltsin seized the diplomatic initiative and pressed for a territorial division of Bosnia—calling it an "oblast" (a term linked to Russia’s imperial sphere).
Yeltsin drew a hard line:
“The arms embargo on Bosnia stays. Especially if you know who the Muslims are.”
His message echoed a deep-rooted bias many Western governments silently shared.
🧯 Since then, Bosnia’s political fate has been shaped not by justice, but by blockades, embargoes, legal tricks, and procedural games—not the right to democracy or normalcy.
🛰️ The first "drone revolution" in history happened during the genocide in Srebrenica. American intelligence saw and heard it all — with U-2 planes, satellites, NSA microphones, and RC-135 Rivet Joint spy aircraft intercepting battlefield communications.
📸 One senior U.S. investigator confirmed:
“We have photos of trucks heading to Brčko full of upright men—and the same trucks returning from Brčko filled with stacked corpses.”
🇧🇦 Thirty years on, the fight for full truth continues. The evidence exists. The silence remains.
Where are the Predator drone videos of civilian massacres?
Why were the most damning pieces of evidence—linking Serbia to the genocide—kept in deep secrecy?
Some answers lie in recently uncovered White House documents—trannoscripts of conversations between Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin from February and April 1993. Yet, 30 years later, many haunting questions still hover over Bosnia. Even with some archives open, much remains in the shadows.
🔍 “What exactly did America know about the looming catastrophe in Srebrenica—and when did it become aware of it?”
🛰️ “Is there live drone footage of the massacre?”
📞 “Did the CIA intercept communications between Belgrade and Mladić prior to the genocide?”
🗃️ “What remains hidden in the ‘mountain of evidence’ guarded by politicians and intelligence agencies?”
These questions, and more, were raised in a crucial 1996 New York Times article noscriptd "Bosnia: What the CIA Didn’t Tell Us." Despite the passage of time, many of these questions are still unanswered.
✍️ Investigative journalists Charles Lane and Thom Shanker were among the first to break this taboo, revealing suppressed intelligence. They detailed internal U.S. battles over access to CIA files—many of which had been jealously guarded.
📆 Why is this 1996 article being revisited now? Because our battle for the truth isn't over. We are still searching for mass graves. We are still searching for our murdered. And we are still fighting for the full truth about genocide in Bosnia.
💥 Madeleine Albright first presented undeniable evidence of genocide to the UN Security Council on August 10, 1995, following fierce resistance from CIA leaders.
📩 That same year, ICTY Chief Prosecutor Richard Goldstone protested directly to the U.S. Embassy in The Hague. Only then did the CIA begin to cooperate. As a result, at least 15 mass graves were identified.
🗣️ Insider accounts from the Clinton administration confirm:
Audio recordings of Belgrade communicating with Mladić exist.
Predator drone footage from over Srebrenica was archived.
One CIA source revealed a chilling exchange:
> “There’s still a week to go,” said a voice from Belgrade.
“Hey, Mladić, aren’t you going to Srebrenica?”
Mladić replied: “Of course I am. I’m not done yet. I’m also going to Goražde and Žepa.”
🧊 Why did Western intelligence remain silent during the genocide? Why was Serbian involvement hidden?
Again, look to the Clinton–Yeltsin meetings. On April 3, 1993, at the Vancouver Summit, Yeltsin seized the diplomatic initiative and pressed for a territorial division of Bosnia—calling it an "oblast" (a term linked to Russia’s imperial sphere).
Yeltsin drew a hard line:
“The arms embargo on Bosnia stays. Especially if you know who the Muslims are.”
His message echoed a deep-rooted bias many Western governments silently shared.
🧯 Since then, Bosnia’s political fate has been shaped not by justice, but by blockades, embargoes, legal tricks, and procedural games—not the right to democracy or normalcy.
🛰️ The first "drone revolution" in history happened during the genocide in Srebrenica. American intelligence saw and heard it all — with U-2 planes, satellites, NSA microphones, and RC-135 Rivet Joint spy aircraft intercepting battlefield communications.
📸 One senior U.S. investigator confirmed:
“We have photos of trucks heading to Brčko full of upright men—and the same trucks returning from Brčko filled with stacked corpses.”
🇧🇦 Thirty years on, the fight for full truth continues. The evidence exists. The silence remains.
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I have a confession to make: mankind has committed a grave and terrible injustice by marketing chocolate milk only to children, and I am tired of ignoring it. I will stand on this hill and die on it. It is cool, it is refreshing, it has all the benefits of both milk and chocolate, and it is 100% amazing. What is there to look down on? Somehow — and I do not know how this happened — it is socially acceptable for a grown adult to order hot chocolate or even coffee with chocolate (which tastes awful), but not chocolate milk, which actually contains less sugar than hot chocolate. Literally 1984.
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