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The Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopts a report denying the Srebrenica genocide

2024-04-18 23:47:53Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopts a report denying the

Republika Srpska's parliament on Thursday approved a report saying the killing of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war did not constitute genocide, defying rulings by international courts.

The July 1995 massacre, which occurred a week after Srebrenica, which had been declared a United Nations safe zone, was attacked by Bosnian Serb forces, has been described as the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.

Currently, Serbia and Republika Srpska are campaigning against a resolution to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide, which is being debated at the United Nations and is expected to be voted on in the General Assembly in early May.

"Genocide did not happen. Such a qualification must be rejected", the nationalist president of the Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, told the legislators. "The Serbian people did not commit genocide," he added.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said last week that Serbia would fight against the adoption of the UN resolution, which would blame the Serbs, fearing it could form a basis for Bosnia to seek war reparations from Serbia.

Authorities in Republika Srpska organized a rally Thursday evening in the region's de facto capital, Banja Luka, to protest the UN resolution, which they said they would never accept.

Milorad Dodiku said during the rally in which the Speaker of the Parliament of Serbia and outgoing Prime Minister Ana Brnabic also participated that the operation of the Bosnian Serb army in Srebrenica was a "big mistake".

"It was a crime, but it was not a genocide," Dodik told supporters clapping and waving Serbian flags. He called on Bosnian Muslims to withdraw their support for the resolution, saying that otherwise the Serbs would not live with them in the same state.

"We don't want to live in the same country as you and we won't live in the same country as you," said Milorad Dodik, a pro-Russian politician who has been sanctioned by the United States and Britain over divisive politics. his. He has traveled to Russia and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin despite its aggression in Ukraine and opposition to the West.

The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ruled in a series of rulings over the past two decades that the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica constituted genocide.

The International Court of Justice confirmed in 2007 such an assertion, also emphasizing that Serbia failed to prevent the genocide.

The men, most of them unarmed, were executed as they tried to flee the eastern enclave after it fell to Bosnian Serb forces on July 11, 1995. They were killed en masse and their remains were found years later in a cemetery. massive.

The Serbian forces were commanded by General Ratko Mladic, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2017 by the Hague Tribunal for genocide, crimes against humanity and organizing massacres and ethnic cleansing during the war in Bosnia.

A 2021 report drawn up by a group of foreign experts and commissioned by the Republika Srpska government concluded that crimes took place in Srebrenica but not genocide, cutting the number of those killed in half and saying that most were killed throughout the fighting.

The draft UN resolution, initiated by Germany and Rwanda, supported by the United States, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other countries, calls for July 11 to be an official international day of remembrance for the victims of the Srebrenica genocide.

It also calls for the condemnation of any denial of the genocide in the Bosnian city.

Bosnia remains ethnically divided and politically tense long after the end of the 1992-1995 war, which left over 100,000 dead and millions displaced. The troubled Balkan nation is seeking membership in the European Union, but internal divisions have stymied the effort amid fears of instability as the war in Ukraine continues./VOA


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