17 minutes agoVoted today before the UN Assembly, the Srebrenica resolution!
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)The UN General Assembly today votes for a draft resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica. The debate over him is expected to begin at 1600. The resolution, which proposes that July 11th be proclaimed International Day of the Srebrenica Genocide Victims and condemns denial of genocide and the glorification of criminals [...]
Support for it, so far, expressed all Western Balkan countries except Serbia and the Serb entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska. Their officials, despite international court rulings, deny that genocide has been committed in Srebrenica against Bosniaks and say there has been a terrible “crime”. In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed over 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica. Over 50 persons were sentenced to about 700 years in prison for the genocide. Among them are Republika Srpska's wartime president, Radovan Karadzic, and the general commander of the then Serbian Army, Ratko Mladic.
Both were sentenced to life imprisonment. Serbia actively lobbied against the adoption of the resolution on Srebrenica and, one day before its UN release, the Republika Srpska Assembly adopted a protest note to UN member states, demanding the withdrawal of the resolution. This, despite the fact that neither Republika Srpska nor Serbia are mentioned in the document. The International Court of Justice in The Hague characterised crime in Srebrenica as genocide in 2007.
The court found that Serbia was not responsible for the act or accomplice, but declared it did nothing to prevent it. /rel
