Leading US student paper goes fascist?

Mensur Omerbashich (several attempts to leave the following comment have failed) Never heard of “disappearing peoples”, especially those allegedly gone in a mere few centuries? Were they adopted by an alien civilization? Seriously now: more likely, the sources (Roman, Hellenic, later Serbian, Croatian…) started calling Bosnians their own. It’s called geopolitics. Happens often, all around the globe, e.g. today in the Middle East where freedom fighters are commonly regarded as terrorists. You catch my drift… Which brings me to an earlier comment by this propaganda’s author: Serbs and Croats became as such around the Renaissance, with other nationalist movements of Europe. So, no Serbs or Croats existed as such in “5th century”. Just us, Illyrians, later regarded as Bosnians (after a centrally positioned Illyrian tribe and river) – the people of Kingdom of Bosnia put in place along with many other kingdoms to safeguard the Pope in the collapsed-Rome aftermath, when Slav hordes began unstoppably advancing towards Rome…

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Mrtav Hladan Fri Nov 14 2008 04:21 Illyrians don’t make me laugh they disappeared and then 3-4 hundred years later Albanians are mentioned.Now all of the Balkans is Illyran.Seems that The Austro-Hugaran propaganda is still in effect.Bosnia is a EU colony and will eventually split between Srbija nad Hrvatska.And the Muslims will get what we leave them.

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Mensur Omerbashich Thu Nov 13 2008 13:32 To Alexandar: around 2/3 of all Bosnians are Illyrian, according to independent (Western) DNA studies in the last decade or so. Most Croatians, Montenegrens and Albanians are also Illyrian. It also turns out that most Serbians are not even Slav… The Bosnians=Illyrians equation coincides well with ancient maps depicting Greco-Roman period, showing Illyria centered on Bosnia and naming the today’s Adriatic Sea (Emperor Hadrian’s Sea) as Mare Illyricum – the Illyrian Sea. Professor John Wilkes, a world leading authority on Illyrians, also supports this equation. So, you were saying?

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Aleksandar Thu Nov 13 2008 11:00 In ten, twenty, or hundred years, sooner or later Bosnia will separate into three pieces and the Croatian and Serbian thirds will unite with Croatia and Serbia respectively. All south slavs (except the Slovenes) are eitehr Serbs or Croats. These are the only two slavic tribes mentioned in in the Balkans since antiquity. Montengrins, Bosnijaks, Macedonians, what were their ancestors called before they moved to the Balkans?