This made me think of another photo. The most famous photo from the Bosnian War, and that helped to convince the public opinion against the Serbs.
It was even cover of the Time Magazine:
The headline is quite explicit: "MUST IT GO ON?"
But what if this photo is not what it seems?
"The fact is that Fikret Alic and his fellow Bosnian Muslims were not imprisoned behind a barbed wire fence. There was no barbed wire fence surrounding Trnopolje camp. It was not a prison, and certainly not a 'concentration camp', but a collection centre for refugees, many of whom went there seeking safety and could leave again if they wished.
The barbed wire in the picture is not around the Bosnian Muslims; it is around the cameraman and the journalists. It formed part of a broken-down barbed wire fence encircling a small compound that was next to Trnopolje camp. The British news team filmed from inside this compound, shooting pictures of the refugees and the camp through the compound fence. In the eyes of many who saw them, the resulting pictures left the false impression that the Bosnian Muslims were caged behind barbed wire.", as explained here.
You can see a documentary exposing the truth about this image. I think the most revealing of all are the images from 0:47 and on of the second part of the video.
"The fact is that Fikret Alic and his fellow Bosnian Muslims were not imprisoned behind a barbed wire fence. There was no barbed wire fence surrounding Trnopolje camp. It was not a prison, and certainly not a 'concentration camp', but a collection centre for refugees, many of whom went there seeking safety and could leave again if they wished.
The barbed wire in the picture is not around the Bosnian Muslims; it is around the cameraman and the journalists. It formed part of a broken-down barbed wire fence encircling a small compound that was next to Trnopolje camp. The British news team filmed from inside this compound, shooting pictures of the refugees and the camp through the compound fence. In the eyes of many who saw them, the resulting pictures left the false impression that the Bosnian Muslims were caged behind barbed wire.", as explained here.
You can see a documentary exposing the truth about this image. I think the most revealing of all are the images from 0:47 and on of the second part of the video.
And now the last question... We saw this image everywhere, but why the western viewers never saw pictures of Mujahideens fighting for the Bosnian side?
‘El-Mujahedeen’ brigade of the Bosnian Muslim Army
parading in downtown Zenica in central Bosnia in 1995,
carrying the black flag of Islamic jihad.
The green banners on their heads which read: “Our path is the Jihad”
written in Arabic script.
But, although these soldiers were unknown in the West, you can read in Wikipedia a defense of them, which is quite ironic.
You could arguee that these images, like many existing others, of the mujahideens fighting for the Bosnian side, were not as shocking as the "manipulated" image of Trnopolje... But what about beheaded soldiers?
Surely photos of beheaded soldiers are shocking. And the western media has shown a lot of images like that (blurred or pixelated, almost always, it's true) from the Islamic State. So why didn't they show these horrible crimes when the victims were serbs in Bosnia and Kosovo??
WARNING: Extremely Graphical Images Ahead.
The head of a Serb, Blagoje Blagojevic,
held by an Arab Saudi/Afghan ‘Jihad’ fighter in Crni Vrh,
Bosnia, 1992:
Click on image to enlarge,
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