Post by theblackswans on Jun 8, 2008 15:40:53 GMT -5
Okey, here is the deal..
ARBiH had more man power, but little heavy weapons.
VRS had less man power, more weapons and gear..
Sarajevo could not have been taken seen as the VRS did not posses enough soldiers to go into street battles, and here the VRS would not have the upper hand.. The goal at the start was to take the city, and cut through it at the middle..
Few Serbs will admit this, but when discussing why what happened as regards to the fighting one has to take into consideration that regardless of the politics the Bosniacs were fighting for their survival. Kind of similar, but with far far fewer casualties then the Serbs west of the Drina river in the second world war… [as in Serbs joining partisans just to live although they were anti communists]
Seen as the Bosniaks could not give up, since they would have been the first south Slavic people to go extinct had they given up, after all, all places captured by either side in the war, and especially the Serbian side at the start of the war was ethnically cleansed. And the Bosniaks are the smallest of the three peoples that speak Serbian, had they surrendered they would have been driven out for good.
Anyways this lead to a stalemate, Bosnian forces couldn’t lift the siege, or the half siege to be honest. Serbs could not enter the city, and bosniaks could not give up for the fear of their existence. So the ARBiH stayed put in Sarajevo, and the VRS shelled the city, the terror shelling of the city only raised moral, since they now had to fight back seen as their family was getting killed in their own apartments..
Had not the VRS leadership been so stupid as to terror bomb, and ethnically cleanse cities, the Muslims would probably have given up, given their desperate and meaningless situation. Mladic even said this to Karadzic, “people are not little stones, we can not wage war with peoples blablabla” Serbias border would have been Knin had someone smarter, and less fascist been in charge. Now we are even losing to siptars…
There is a lot of truth to what you said.
Tetovska is Semira Fraste now.
nemate pametnija posla nego menate ulice