The Srebrenica genocide was confirmed by two international courts, said the Office of the High Representative (OHR) told N1 responding to Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic’s statements denying the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
The OHR which oversees toe civilian implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995).
“In spite of all attempts to change and deny the facts, the 1995 events have been documented in detail, and two international courts have confirmed the fact that genocide took place in Srebrenica, in 1995,” the OHR said.
Bosnia’s outgoing Bosniak Presidency member said that Bosniaks have gotten used to these things and learned to continue working and communicating with such people, trying to make things right.
“This is a country where Radovan Karadzic was awarded, and the Bosnian language was banned, but we still live here and continue to fix things,” Izetbegovic said.
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Radovan Karadzic is a former Republika Srpska entity President convicted of genocide in Srebrenica in 1995 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The court also also found him guilty of persecution, extermination, murder, deportation, inhumane acts (forcible transfer), terrorism, unlawful attacks against civilians, and hostage taking. At the same time, he was acquitted of charges of genocide in other municipalities in BiH during 1992.
The US Government was very clear, said the US Embassy to Bosnia, the Srebrenica genocide is a well established and undeniable fact.
Competent, independent international organisations and courts, including the verdict of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), found that genocide was committed in Srebrenica in 1995, the Embassy said. This is an undeniable fact.
“No attempts to deny genocide chan change this truth. We are disappointed by the rhetoric denying this basic fact,” the US Embassy told N1. “We call upon all sides to respect these court decisions and bravely face the past and accept the truth regardless of how painful it is.”
They added that as the greatest massacre committed in Europe after the Second World War and the crime against all humanity, the Srebrenica genocide must never be forgotten or minimised.
The British Embassy to Bosnia and Herzegovina also condemned the statement saying that their position concerning the genocide is clear:
“Our position concerning the Srebrenica atrocities which were confirmed as genocide by international courts is clear. International and domestic courts have confirmed that this crime corresponds to the definition of genocide from the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,” the UK Embassy said. “This is not a political statement. This is a legal fact.”
During an interview with Deutsche Welle, Serbia’s Ana Brnabic said that “a terrible crime” was committed in Srebrenica, in 1995.
“I don’t think it was a genocide. I think it was… you know, I think it was a terrible, terrible crime but genocide is when… genocide is when you kill an entire population, women, children, and this was not the case here,” Serbia’s Prime Minister said.
