24 minutes agoStudents in Serbia don't learn a single word about Kosovo war
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Professor Raymond Murphy of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland “Galway” has written an article following Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic's life sentence. In this article, published in <x2Irish Legal News”, Professor Murphy, after considering the process leading to arrest and more [...]
In this article, published in <x0Irish Legal News”, Professor Murphy, as he examines the process that led to the arrest and later Mladic's sentence by The Hague Tribunal handles with several co-ordinators even the issue of Serbia in relation to wars with neighbouring states.
No Balkan state has fully co-operated with the UN tribunal, and everyone has been defeated to protect their war crimes suspects. But Serbs have committed the biggest crimes in the 1990s conflicts, including genocide, and so far, for many people, Belgrade has a special responsibility for these crimes.
Its leaders named the tribunal as “anti-Serbian” and deny that the Srebrenica massacre (of 1995) has been genocide, while allowing a convicted war criminal to legalise at the military academy in Belgrade and feed a story of victimisation and denial.
Our “Hulum shows that most people in Serbia do not want to know about war crimes judgments”, says Jelena Krstic from the Centre for Humanitarian Law in Belgrade, which requires Serbia and its neighbours to continue the work of Tribunal, broadcast Koha.net.
“In schools, there is not a single word for war in Kosovo. Children learn that NATO has bombed Serbia from March to June 1999, but nothing is said about war crimes, deportations, violations and mass cemetery”, she adds.
“Regarding other wars, clarifications are very ethnically based, and of course, guilt falls on Bosnia and Croatia because they wanted to separate from Yugoslavia and Serbia wanted it to survive”.
I wouldn't say this is a process of forgetting; it's a process of remembering the wrong stories of the past. Perhaps it would be better to forget than to learn what is not true, that there was no war in Kosovo, or that Srebrenica and others did not occur.
Following Mladic's sentence, Serbia's leaders asked their people to look towards the future, not the past, while Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik ré, who has only banned the schools of his region from learning about Srebrenica and the 44-month siege of Sarajevo, called Mladic <x0hero and patriot”.
