The Serbian Criminals… and the Swarms of “Junaydi” Militias
By Babiker Ismail
The Serb attack on Bosnia, backed by the Serbian and Croatian armies, began on April 1, 1992, targeting the peaceful Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, then led by the Islamic thinker Alija Izetbegović.
Just as, on April 15, 2023, swarms of Arab tribal militias—“the Junaydi”—attacked the peaceful Republic of Sudan, supported by forces brought from Chad, Niger, southern Libya, and the Central African Republic, and backed politically and logistically by Ethiopia, Kenya, the United Arab Emirates, and South Sudan.
One hundred thousand Bosnians—civilians and fighters—were slaughtered by the Serbian and Croatian death machines, under the leadership of the Serbian Republic, headed by the criminal Slobodan Milošević, aided by the criminals Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić.
And a hundred thousand or more met the same fate at the hands of the genocidal Junaydi militias and their accomplices from Chad, the UAE, and other aggressor nations.
These Junaydi forces are led by the criminal Mohamed Hamdan “Daglo-vić”, assisted by Abdul Rahim “Tahon-vić” and Othman “Operations-vić”.
When the war began in April 1992, Serbian forces attacked non-Serb civilian gatherings in eastern Bosnia. As soon as towns and villages fell under their control, the Serb forces and paramilitaries, sometimes aided by Serb villagers, began a systematic plan of looting and burning the homes and properties of the Bosniaks (Muslims), capturing civilians, beating them severely, and killing many under torture. Around 2.2 million Bosnians were displaced from their lands, while many men were held in detention camps. Women were detained in harsh, unsanitary conditions, subjected to repeated sexual assaults and physical humiliation, with some impregnated by Serb criminals.
Exactly as the Janjaweed gangs and Junaydi swarms did to the Sudanese people—and more. The criminal Janjaweed tribes also destroyed the country’s strategic infrastructure, looted public and private properties, and sold them across borders to complicit neighboring countries. They also enslaved Sudanese women and sold them in the markets of criminal dens and the desert outposts of the Junaydi swarms in the far reaches of Darfur and West Africa.
In a single night, Serbian forces slaughtered 8,000 Bosnians trapped in Srebrenica—while United Nations forces watched. Just as now, civilians trapped in the Zamzam Camp near El Fasher are being killed every day under the gaze of the entire world and UN organizations.
Just as there was an ethnic support base complicit with the desert Junaydi swarms, there were Bosnian Serbs who killed their Bosniak neighbors and colleagues under the leadership of the criminal Ratko Mladić—just as the Junaydi have killed their Sudanese neighbors and colleagues.
The graves bear witness to these victims: the white cemetery in beautiful Sarajevo, for instance. And the Tunnel of Hope, which the Bosnians dug under Sarajevo Airport’s runway—a 780-meter lifeline that allowed their besieged army to survive, beginning from the home of Mrs. Sheida and her husband Kolar.
That tunnel reminds us of the sacrifices of Sudanese civilians and army intelligence units who smuggled supplies and food to besieged army units in Al-Muhandiseen, the Armored Corps, and Wadi Sayyidna—using boats, tunnels, or daring truck runs under a hail of bullets, like the martyr Al-Nu’man and other heroes.
The Bosnians immortalized their war, its pain and defining moments, in museums across Sarajevo—filled with stories, lessons, and tears.
We in Sudan must also document our War of Dignity, and build a museum to preserve it for future generations, to reflect the suffering of Sudan’s people at the hands of the swarms of locust-like militias—crossing borders, bringing shame, destruction, and death with them. May God damn them wherever they turn.
