The Resolution on the Genocide in Srebrenica which Montenegro recently adopted benefits the development of better relations in the Balkans, and Serbia, under president Aleksandar Vucic, is still not ready to face the truth about what happened in Bosnia in the 1990s, the leader of the main Bosniak party in BiH, Bakir Izetbegovic, wrote on Sunday.
The Party of Democratic Action (SDA) leader said the Resolution condemning the genocide in Srebrenica and prohibiting its denial, which Montenegro’s Parliament adopted on Thursday, represents “a big step towards accepting the truth about the events of the 1990s, which is the basis for continuing to establish trust and build better relations among the states and peoples of the Balkans.”
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“Unfortunately, the nervous reactions coming from Serbia show that there is still no readiness on that side for that kind of confrontation with the truth,” Izetbegovic wrote, arguing that this is best evidenced by the reaction of the Vucic who complained that Montenegro is ‘interfering in the issue of Srebrenica’.
“Montenegrins and Montenegro, as well as all peoples and states belonging to the civilized and democratic world, should certainly ‘interfere in the issue of Srebrenica’. Any crime committed against innocent people, and especially genocide, concerns every just and truthful person in the world, every nation and every state,” he wrote, noting that many other countries also condemned the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
Montenegro “does have something to say” about the genocide, he argued, noting that the country was “pulled into” the BiH was under the policy of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
“With this attitude, Montenegrins, like the best European nations, have shown that they are ready to reject historical misconceptions and to build future relations with their environment on the foundations of the truth – no matter how bitter it may be,” he wrote.
Izetbegovic argued that “a few years ago, it seemed as if Serbia as well, led by Vucic, would have the strength to confront the past.”
“Unfortunately, this has not happened and will likely never happen. Vucic is returning to self-deception in which any Serb or Serbia can never be guilty and responsible for the evil committed. And they are guilty,” he stressed, adding that this was confirmed by the verdicts of the Hague Tribunal and the International Court of Justice.
“Both courts ruled that genocide was committed in Srebrenica. Most of the Serbian military and political leadership was sentenced before the Hague Tribunal, and before the International Court of Justice, Serbia was the first country in the world to be found guilty of violating the UN Genocide Convention,” Izetbegovic added.
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