The adoption of the draft is imminent, and July 11th is to be established as a day of remembrance for the genocide of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims. Germany played a crucial role in formulating the resolution
The United Nations General Assembly is scheduled to vote this Thursday (from 4 p.m. CEST) on a draft resolution that would establish an international day of remembrance for the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. If the draft is accepted as expected, the genocide of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims will be commemorated on July 11th. The resolution was largely developed by Germany in collaboration with Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Serbian government, however, expressed dissatisfaction with the text and argued that the resolution would divide the region.
The Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War killed 8,000 Bosnian Muslims on July 11 and the following days, the majority of them men and young males. Women, girls and children were deported in buses to the front lines in the area controlled by the Bosnian army.
Judgments by the War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have legally established the genocidal nature of the Srebrenica massacre.
The then political leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, and the commander of the so-called Bosnian Serb Army (BSA), Ratko Mladic, were sentenced to life in prison by the ICTY.
In Serbia under President Aleksandar Vucic and in the Serbian part of Bosnia, the Republika Srpska, under its President Milorad Dodik, the denial of the Srebrenica genocide and the heroization of the perpetrators is, so to speak, state policy. Vucic’s argument that the UN resolution would collectively condemn and stigmatize the “Serbian people” has no basis because that is simply not in the resolution.