30 years ago, in July 1995, the war against Islam in Bosnia began in earnest – the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia and Herzegovina marks one of the darkest chapters in modern European history. During the Bosnian War (1992-1995), the Bosnian Serb forces systematically executed more than 8,000 Muslim Bosniak men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica. Women and girls were separated and sent to rape camps. This genocide was part of a broader campaign of ethnic cleansing aimed at eliminating Muslim Bosniak presence from the region.
“They have to know that there are 20,000 armed Serbs around Sarajevo … it will be a black cauldron where 300,000 Muslims will die, They will disappear. That people will disappear from the face of the earth.”

These were the words of former Chetnik leader Radovan Karadzic, the butcher of Srebrenica.

The massacre occurred despite Srebrenica being declared a UN “safe area” protected by Dutch peacekeepers. However, the UN troops were unable to prevent the Serb forces, led by General Ratko Mladić, from overtaking the town and committing atrocities. Despite the empty, ‘never again’ slogan coined after WW2, it was the international community’s failure to act and the inadequacy of UN protection efforts that allowed this genocide to happen.

The Srebrenica massacre was not just fuelled by nationalism and the desire for territorial control. It was a Christian holy war. Radovan Karadzic admitted that the Serbs were engaged in a holy war, with no rhetorical exaggeration, he and his supporters believed God was on their side to wage a crusade against Muslims.

Interestingly, the mainstream media have never questioned how this Christian extremism which led to genocide came into being and how it should be tackled. Fast forward to today, the Zionists of irreligious persuasion – both Christian Evangelicals and Jews also believe that the genocide of Muslims (mainly children) is a religious necessity for the Messiah to return. Zionism is broader than religion, with many atheist Zionists not concerned about religion, but being motivated by gaining control of the region, money, the arms trade and their own morbid God complexes. However, the religious element is too strong to be overlooked.

It’s a little-known reported fact that Israel’s Supreme Court rejected a petition to reveal details of Israeli defence exports to the former Yugoslavia during the genocide in Bosnia in the 1990s. The court ruled that exposing Israeli involvement in genocide would damage the country’s foreign relations to such an extent that it would outweigh the public interest in knowing that information, and the possible prosecution of those involved.

The Israeli State Attorney’s reply and the court’s rejection of the petition are a de facto admission by Israel that it cooperated with the Bosnian genocide: if the government had nothing to hide, the documents under discussion would not pose any threat to foreign relations.

So, how were the perpetrators brought to justice? The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established to prosecute those responsible for war crimes, including genocide. Ratko Mladić was known to be the General of the Serb forces that carried out these atrocities was captured peacefully and brought to trial, after being responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the former Yugoslavian block. Compare this to when Osama Bin Laden was executed, for apparently being behind the 9/11 attacks for which no proof has ever been presented, proof on which a legal case can be built and a prosecution built upon.

The Srebrenica massacre and the horrors that took place across Bosnia are a stark example of the global oppression faced by Muslim communities. Not just before, but since the 1990s Muslims have been the continuous targets of oppression both physically and ideologically.

The U.S. and U.K. wars of terror in Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Libya (2011), Syria (2011), Yemen (2014) were agonising tales of mass murder, torture, starvation and inhumanity. Not to mention the aftermath of destabilisation that has continued since. And all for what? Money, power, resources. Never forget that war makes money for the powers that be, and the millions of lives lost and destroyed are merely part of the process.

Turning to the Uyghur Muslim population, the Chinese Communist Party has implemented policies of mass internment, forced labour and ‘cultural assimilation’ against the Uyghur Muslims. These actions have drawn international condemnation but little effective intervention.

The Rohingya in Burma have been openly butchered, babies burnt alive and the survivors forced to flee their homes and live as refugees. In the limited mainstream coverage, nobody has questioned the role of Buddhist monks in this ethnic cleansing and genocidal rape, and if their faith has had a part to play in their extremism.

The Kashmiri people are enduring decades of daily violence, rape, illegal detention, curfews, communication blackouts; the similarities between Kashmir and Gaza are stark to see. Again, our western beacons of justice have not held the Indian government to account or even called for a superficial end of the illegal occupation.

The list is endless and harrowing and has not received the coverage, the analysis or intervention required as either our governments are the perpetrators themselves or they just don’t care about innocent lives that happen to be Muslim.

The Gaza genocide is different — we are watching it in real time. Since October 7, 2023, the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza has escalated to unprecedented levels, with tens of thousands of civilians killed, the majority of them women and children. Entire neighborhoods have been wiped off the map. Hospitals, schools, and refugee camps have been systematically targeted, and essential infrastructure like water and electricity has been obliterated. The siege has turned Gaza into a graveyard and a starvation zone. And yet, the world remains silent, complicit in its inaction, or worse — actively supporting it.

Trump’s so-called “Deal of the Century” envisioned Gaza not as a home for Palestinians but as a fragmented economic zone under complete Israeli security control — essentially turning Palestinians into a stateless labor force without rights or sovereignty. That “vision” laid the groundwork for what we now see: the systematic ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Israel, emboldened by global inaction and diplomatic cover from Western allies, has expanded its military aggression beyond Gaza, targeting Iranian military officials, bombing Syria and Lebanon, attacking Jordanian airspace, and attacking civilian ports in Yemen. These actions are not isolated — they are deeply tied to Israel’s Greater Israel project, an expansionist ideology rooted in historic Zionist goals that stretch far beyond the current borders. Gaza is not the end — it’s one piece in a broader geopolitical puzzle.

And yet, even as the regional conflict escalates, the so-called “international community” continues to issue hollow statements and meaningless ceasefire calls, refusing to hold Israel accountable for war crimes or stop the arms shipments that fuel this genocide. Instead, Western democracies, which claim to uphold international law and human rights, are funding and justifying these atrocities.

The pain and devastation in Gaza must not be reduced to numbers or headlines. It is an ongoing genocide, now nearly 2 years long, carried out in full view of the world, with the victims pleading for help and the world choosing, once again, to look away.

As we commemorate and grieve the loss of thousands of our brothers and sisters in Bosnia, remember, the Srebrenica massacre is not just a historical atrocity but a warning of what happens when the world fails to act against ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Let it be fuel for the fight to end the ongoing genocide, not only in Gaza but countless other place.