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Thread #58230   Message #2719663
Posted By: glueman
09-Sep-09 - 07:28 AM
Thread Name: Who Defines 'Folk'????
Subject: RE: Who Defines 'Folk'????
Glueman - "Right here. The ones who say doubting the nonsense is the same as genocide."

Shimrod - "I've told you a million, billion times, 'glueman' not to exaggerate!"

Here you go Shimmy, from this very board a couple weeks ago:

"It's a bit more aggressive than ignoring history. He wants to destroy it.

I have no doubt that the burden of responsibility for the destruction of Bosnia lies predominantly on one side, and I have tried to set out in the final chapters of this book my reasons for thinking so.

One sure way of judging the historical claims of the main perpetrators of violence in Bosnia is to look at what they have done to the physical evidence of history itself. They are not only ruining the future of that country: they are also making systematic efforts to eliminate its past. The state and university library in Sarajevo was destroyed with incendiary shells. The Oriental Institute, with its irreplaceable collection of manuscripts and other materials illustrating the Ottoman history of Bosnia, was also destroyed by concentrated shelling. All over the country, mosques and minarets have been destroyed, including some of the finest examples of sixteenth-century Ottoman architecture in the western Balkans. These buildings were not just caught in the cross-fire of military engagements; in towns such as Bijeljina and Banja Luka, the demolitions had nothing to do with fighting at all - the mosques were blown up with explosives in the night, and bulldozed on the following day. The people who have planned and ordered these actions like to say that history is on their side. What they show by their deeds is that they are waging war on the history of their country"

There we are, discussing the 'folk process' is the same as genocide.