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truth and on the testimony from our brother bishops from Bosnia
and Herzegovina and from other trustworthy witnesses, we declare,
taking full moral responsibility, that such camps have neither existed
nor exist in the Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina.” 118
Every method was used to mobilize Serbs throughout Yugoslavia,
including the recollection of World War II crimes against Serbs,
the revival of myths created at the time of the Turkish occupation,
and outright lies. Jovan Rašković, one of those most responsible
for whipping up Serbian rebellion in Croatia (a fact he later publicly
acknowledged) and in Bosnia, invoked a social-psychological
argument:
The Croats effeminated by the Catholic faith suffer from a castration
complex. That makes them totally incapable of exercising authority
over others. They compensate for their humiliation with their great
culture. As to the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina and neighboring
regions, they are the victims, as Freud might have said, of anal frustrations,
which cause them to amass wealth and seek refuge in fanatical
attitudes. Finally, the Serbs, the Orthodox, an Oedipal people, tend
to liberate themselves from the authority of the father. From this spirit
of resistance they draw the courage of warriors who are the ones capable
of exercising authority over other peoples of Yugoslavia. It is no
wonder that a situation of complete hatred and paranoia has developed
in this country. 119
The spc took an active part in rallying the Serbs and “went out
to the people,” carrying the bones of Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović
from place to place and observing an elaborate code of religious and
national propriety designed to support the claim that the Serbs are
God’s emissaries. Church processions and the display of the bones of
118 “The extraordinary session of the Holy Episcopal Synod of the Serbian
Orthodox Church in response to the false accusations against the Serb people
in Bosnia-Herzegovina,” Orthodox Missionary, June 1992, pp . 250–51 .
119 Jovan Rašković, Luda zemlja (The Mad Country) . Beograd, 1990, p 129–130