THE IRGC’S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD

THE IRGC’S  MESSAGE TO THE WORLD

 

After the horrors of the Holocaust, the international community drafted the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and pledged ”never again” should such evil strike humanity. The pledge proved empty; numerous cases of genocidal violence followed. Bosnia (1992- 1995) and Rwanda (1994) are particularly relevant. In both cases we could not justify our inactivity by lack of knowledge or experience. This time we knew. How could all this nonetheless happen?

STRICTLY SPEAKING, SREBRENICA WAS GENOCIDE!

 

THE VICTORY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CANADA – SREBRENICA REMEMBRANCE DAY MOTION PASSES THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENT RECOGNIZING THE GENOCIDE THAT HAPPENED IN SREBRENICA

 

Srebrenica Genocide is judicial fact recognized first by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia {ICTY} and subsequently by the International Court of Justice {ICJ}.

 

1.        The Srebrenica Genocide is the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II.

 

2.        In 2004, in a unanimous ruling on the "Prosecutor v. Krstić" case, ICTY ruled that the massacre of the enclave's male inhabitants constituted a crime of genocide.

 

3.        Theodor Meron, the presiding judge, stated: “By seeking to eliminate a part of the Bosnian Muslims, the Bosnian Serb forces committed genocide. They targeted for extinction the 40,000 Bosnian Muslims living in Srebrenica, a group which was emblematic of the Bosnian Muslims in general. They stripped all the male Muslim prisoners, military and civilian, elderly and young, of their personal belongings and identification, and deliberately and methodically killed them solely on the basis of their identity”.

 

4.        In February 2007 ICJ concurred with the ICTY judgement that the atrocities committed at Srebrenica constituted a genocide, stating: The ICJ concludes that the acts committed at Srebrenica falling within Article II (a) and (b) of the Convention were committed with

the specific intent to destroy in part the group of the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina as such; and accordingly that these were acts of genocide, committed by members of the VRS in and around Srebrenica from about 13 July 1995.

 

STRICTLY SPEAKING, BOSNIA WAS GENOCIDE!

 

THE VICTORY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CANADA - SREBRENICA REMEMBRANCE DAY MOTION PASSES THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENT RECOGNIZING THE GENOCIDE THAT HAPPENED IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

 

Numerous relevant sources of different provenance reliably suggest the two initial and basic, essential fundamental settings and provisions for the contemporary events and episodes in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of XX century:

 

First, a classic armed aggression was conducted against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was crime against peace and safety of mankind which is according to the basic understanding and definition an international armed conflict.

 

Second, the worst crimes – crime of genocide was committed in the territory of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina against Bosniaks under siege.

 

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) proved — at least five times — that the Bosnian war was not a ‘civil war’ but a classic armed aggression against Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Presently, there are four legal judgments in which genocide was proven to have happened in Bosnia and Herzegovina, other than Srebrenica. The three international judgments acknowledging that genocide, indeed did

take place in Bosnia, other than Srebrenica, include: Prosecutor v Nikola Jorgic (Doboj region), Prosecutor v Novislav Djajic [Dzajic] (Foča region), Prosecutor v Djuradj Kuslic [Kusljic] (Kotor Varos) and Prosecutor v Maksim Sokolovic (Kalesija, Zvornik region).