The UN General Assembly’s designation of July 11 as the official international day of remembrance for the Srebrenica genocide is a moral and legal imperative, Menachem Z. Rosensaft, Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and General Counsel Emeritus of the World Jewish Congress said for N1.
He states that there are at least three reasons for this.
“First, because the thousands of Bosniak — that is, Bosnian Muslim — men and boys who were slaughtered by Bosnian Serb paramilitary thugs in the name of a pan-Serbian supremacist ideology deserve to have their death and the manner of their death commemorated by the international community every bit as much as the Jewish victims of the Holocaust or the Tutsi victims of the Rwanda genocide.
Second, because a succession of panels of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice have unequivocally held that the massacres at Srebrenica constituted genocide as a matter of uncontroverted international law.
And third, because Srebrenica was supposed to be a safe area under UN protection and instead, the Dutch UN peacekeeping force callously and shamefully abandoned the Bosniaks who had sought shelter there to be murdered on the UN’s watch,” Rosensaft said.
The resolution, co-authored by Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, and Germany, and supported by over 30 UN member states, is anticipated to formalize the commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide as a pivotal historical event. The vote on the Draft Resolution at the UN General Assembly is scheduled to take place on Thursday, at 4 pm, CET.
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