IGC CANADA: There are sufficient legal, political, scientific-research, but also moral and human arguments for separating Srebrenica from the RS

IGC CANADA: There are sufficient legal, political, scientific-research, but also moral and human arguments for separating Srebrenica from the RS

There are sufficient legal, political, scientific-research, but also moral and human arguments for separating Srebrenica from the smaller Bosnian-Herzegovinian entity of the RS, considers the Institute for Genocide Research in reaction to the information from Patria that Srebrenica will be turned into a local community within the Bratunac municipality.

"It is of vital national, Bosnian-Herzegovinian, Bosniak, and state-building interest to stop this new attack on Srebrenica. The greatest wound of Bosniaks and the site of the greatest crime after the Holocaust in Europe should never have been placed under the administrative-political jurisdiction of institutions that committed genocide there. There are sufficient legal, political, scientific-research, but also moral and human arguments for separating Srebrenica from the Bosnian-Herzegovinian entity of the RS," state from the IGK.

"The defense forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Srebrenica successfully resisted the aggression by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) from April 1992 to March 1993. It is estimated that during this period, 1,800 residents of Srebrenica, mostly civilians, were killed on a genocidal basis. After the major offensive led by three JNA corps from Serbia from the end of 1992 and the beginning of February 1993, UNPROFOR forces arrived in Srebrenica. The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution S/RES/819 establishing the UN Safe Area of Srebrenica, and a demilitarization agreement was signed. Demilitarization practically meant only the disarmament of the defenders of Srebrenica, and not of the aggressor forces. The result of the disarmament of Srebrenica is that in July 1995, the UN Safe Area of Srebrenica became the largest killing field in Europe after the Second World War, where over 8,000 men, women, and children were brutally killed," they add from the IGK.

They add that "after that, by the Dayton Peace Agreement, the perpetrators of genocide were rewarded with 49% of the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the so-called entity of the RS, which included and placed Srebrenica under its so-called sovereignty, thereby rewarding the aggressors with power over the victims of genocide in Srebrenica. The Dayton Agreement and the entity of the RS established by that agreement were built on the genocide committed in Srebrenica." 

"According to the Charter of the United Nations, they were obliged to protect their member state, the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from aggression and genocide, and not to reward the perpetrators of genocide with the territory of the state victim of aggression. International and national courts have legally adjudicated the genocide in Srebrenica. The U.S. Congress and Senate, the Canadian Parliament, the Australian Parliament, the European Parliament, and the parliaments of several countries have politically confirmed the genocide in Srebrenica through their decisions. Research teams from the world's most renowned research institutions have scientifically proven the genocide in Srebrenica. The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Carla Del Ponte, and the President of that court, Judge Theodor Meron, confirmed that genocide occurred in Srebrenica during their appearance before the UN Security Council, less than a month before the tenth anniversary of the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica," note from the IGK.

As they say, "The International Court of Justice rendered its decision on February 27, 2007, in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia, by which the International Court of Justice ruled: 'That Serbia violated the obligation to prevent genocide to which it was bound under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, relating to the genocide committed in Srebrenica in July 1995.' The Court confirmed that the genocide was committed by the army and police of the RS entity and that Serbia had an obligation to prevent it. Surviving victims, descendants of victims, and witnesses of genocide continue to be oppressed by the aggressors and perpetrators of genocide in Srebrenica and Bosnia and Herzegovina."

Genocide researchers, members of the International Expert Team of the Institute for Genocide Research, Canada, believe that no one can dispute the right to separate Srebrenica from the constitutional-legal system of the smaller Bosnian-Herzegovinian entity created by the legalization of the results of aggression and genocide. This right is guaranteed to Srebrenica primarily by the Judgment of the International Court of Justice against Serbia and the RS entity, the judgments of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the decisions of the parliaments of the most influential countries in the world, and the research teams of the most renowned research institutions in the world. As genocide researchers, we believe that there are sufficient legal, political, scientific-research, but also moral and human arguments for separating Srebrenica from the smaller Bosnian-Herzegovinian entity. The IGK will request in a special letter from Canada and other states to prevent a new attack on the victims of genocide in Srebrenica.

The IGK, back in 2016 when a denier of genocide was elected mayor of Srebrenica, launched an initiative for the separation of Srebrenica and its transformation into a Bosnian-Herzegovinian district. Into a state territory with a special arrangement and of special interest for Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

"The best response to deniers of genocide and revisionists of judicial and historical facts is the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the impossibility of the survival of the RS entity. Therefore, it is important to obtain an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice: should the RS entity be abolished after the genocide verdicts by the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal? Obtaining the said advisory opinion is a test and challenge of personal and collective activism that must involve the academic, scientific-research, and material capacities of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina and especially the Bosnian-Herzegovinian diaspora," conclude from the IGK.