American Jewish Committee (AJC) expressed deep concern about the efforts of "some political factions" in Bosnia-Herzegovina to remove the country’s legal ban on denial of the Holocaust and other genocides, warning that this would eb a "misguided and dangerous measure."
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the AJC reminds that the former international peace envoy Valentin Inzko, who served as the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2009 to 2021 “appropriately amended” the Bosnian Criminal Code, imposing the penalties on those who engage in genocide denial.
“The measure, intended to sanction those who would deny the Holocaust or other genocides, such as what befell Bosnian Muslims during the Yugoslav wars, is in line with legislation in many other European states,” said the New York-based organisation, one of the oldest Jewish advocacy groups in the world.
It also warned that over the recent days the “Croat and Serb nationalist leaders in Bosnia-Herzegovina” have joined forces to vote for removing this ban from the criminal code, emphasising that such measure would be dangerous.
“AJC, cognizant of the different legal traditions in Europe and the United States, considers this to be a misguided and dangerous measure that will embolden those who would willfully distort and deny these tragic historical facts and threaten to upend the ethnic balance of the country that has been in place since the 1995 Dayton Accords,” said the statement.
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