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The Republika Srpska approves the report denying the genocide in Srebrenica

2024-04-18 20:44:44Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The Republika Srpska approves the report denying the genocide in Srebrenica

The Parliament of the Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina has approved a report on Thursday, which states that the killing of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war does not constitute genocide.

In 2007, the International Court of Justice declared the crime of genocide in Srebrenica, in which more than 8,000 Bosnian men and boys were killed in 1995 by the Republika Srpska Army.

The Srebrenica massacre has been described as the worst in Europe since the Second World War.

However, the nationalist president of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, told the legislators that "genocide did not happen, so such a definition seems to be rejected".

"Serbs did not commit genocide", he added.

This decision was taken at a time when Serbia and Republika Srpska are campaigning against a draft resolution being discussed at the United Nations to declare July 11 as the International Day of Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide.

The UN General Assembly is expected to vote on this draft resolution at the beginning of May.

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said last week that Serbia will fight against the adoption of this resolution at the UN, which would blame the Serbs. He fears the resolution could create the basis for Bosniaks to seek war reparations from Serbia, the Bosnian Serbs' ally during the war.

The resolution is partly similar to the resolution on the Rwandan genocide, where around 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus were killed. Its draft was developed by a group of countries, including Rwanda, Germany, France and the United States.

So far, more than 50 people have been sentenced to over 700 years in prison for genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica.

Radovan Karadzic, the first president of the Republika Srpska [1992/1995], the predominantly Serb entity that together with the Bosnian and Croat federations make up Bosnia, was sentenced to life in prison for genocide and other crimes, including at Srebrenica.

The Republika Srpska army commander at the time, Ratlko Mlladić, is serving a life sentence for genocide as well. /REL


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