🇲🇾🇧🇦 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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Bosna
🕌 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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Bosna
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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🇧🇦 ☪ Keeping Memory Alive Through Names in Srebrenica
In Srebrenica, many children are named after relatives killed in the 1995 genocide — fathers, brothers, uncles, grandfathers. It's a way for survivors to preserve memory and carry forward the stories of those lost.
One father, Muhamed Avdić, named his son Azam after his own father, who was murdered in the genocide and never found. At first, Muhamed couldn’t bring himself to say the name. “I’d call him ‘little bey’, ‘sugar drop’... It took time,” he said. Azam now plays guitar in the park — like his grandfather once played the violin.
🕌 Imam Ahmed Hrustanović buried his father Rifet in Potočari in 2012. Though he had a son that year, he wasn’t ready to give him the same name. Years later, he did — naming his youngest Rifet. “I avoided the name... I couldn't connect the two Rifets: my father and my son. Now I call him proudly.”
In one local religious class (mekteb), out of 20 children, 15 were named after genocide victims from their families.
In Srebrenica, many children are named after relatives killed in the 1995 genocide — fathers, brothers, uncles, grandfathers. It's a way for survivors to preserve memory and carry forward the stories of those lost.
One father, Muhamed Avdić, named his son Azam after his own father, who was murdered in the genocide and never found. At first, Muhamed couldn’t bring himself to say the name. “I’d call him ‘little bey’, ‘sugar drop’... It took time,” he said. Azam now plays guitar in the park — like his grandfather once played the violin.
🕌 Imam Ahmed Hrustanović buried his father Rifet in Potočari in 2012. Though he had a son that year, he wasn’t ready to give him the same name. Years later, he did — naming his youngest Rifet. “I avoided the name... I couldn't connect the two Rifets: my father and my son. Now I call him proudly.”
In one local religious class (mekteb), out of 20 children, 15 were named after genocide victims from their families.
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Bosna
Are Trump voters able to point out Bosnia on the map of Europe?
Who that one bro that said yes, lemme have a word with you
Edit: This is getting out of hand. Now there is five* of them.
Edit: This is getting out of hand. Now there is five* of them.
Forwarded from Balkan Monitor
🇧🇦 Provocation in East Sarajevo: Bust Unveiled for Russian Diplomat Who Vetoed Srebrenica Genocide Resolution
Just days before the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, a bust of Vitaly Churkin — the Russian UN ambassador who vetoed the 2015 UN resolution recognizing the genocide — was unveiled in East Sarajevo. Many view the move as a direct provocation and a continuation of Republika Srpska’s denial policy.
🇷🇺 Провокация в Восточном Сараево: открыт бюст российскому дипломату, наложившему вето на резолюцию о геноциде в Сребренице
За несколько дней до 30-й годовщины геноцида в Сребренице в Восточном Сараево был открыт бюст Виталию Чуркину — российскому послу при ООН, который в 2015 году наложил вето на резолюцию ООН о признании геноцида. Многие расценили этот шаг как прямую провокацию и продолжение политики отрицания геноцида со стороны Республики Сербской.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/BalkanMonitor
Just days before the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, a bust of Vitaly Churkin — the Russian UN ambassador who vetoed the 2015 UN resolution recognizing the genocide — was unveiled in East Sarajevo. Many view the move as a direct provocation and a continuation of Republika Srpska’s denial policy.
🇷🇺 Провокация в Восточном Сараево: открыт бюст российскому дипломату, наложившему вето на резолюцию о геноциде в Сребренице
За несколько дней до 30-й годовщины геноцида в Сребренице в Восточном Сараево был открыт бюст Виталию Чуркину — российскому послу при ООН, который в 2015 году наложил вето на резолюцию ООН о признании геноцида. Многие расценили этот шаг как прямую провокацию и продолжение политики отрицания геноцида со стороны Республики Сербской.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/BalkanMonitor
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