Friday, June 10, 2005
Srebrenica Video Grips Serbs
The massacre at Srebrenica will reach its ten-year anniversary in July, but the truth is only beginning to penetrate Serb nationalism. The state-controlled media bore much to blame for Serbs not knowing what actually happened in Bosnia, as documented by Eric Gordy in The Culture of Power in Serbia. As in Rwanda contemporaneously and so many other institutionalized mass killings, a compliant-to-propagandistic media acts as catalyst and apologist, stoking fear and anger against perceived, often invented, wrongs. As we see in Serbia today, correcting such lies can take generations, and for some they will never die.
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