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zjava povodom otvaranja spomenika žrtvama genocida u Srebrenici, Windsor, 9. juli 2016.
Poštovane žrtve genocida, dragi prijatelji, Äast mi je i zadovoljstvo da vam se u svojstvu istraživaÄa genocida, a povodom otvaranja spomenika žrtvama genocida u Srebrenici – u Windsoru obratim i iznesem svoje mišljenje, stavove i poruke.
Kao što je opšte poznato, na kraju XX stoljeća u srcu Evrope, u jednoj maloj balkanskoj zemlji, u Republici Bosni i Hercegovini, Srbija i Crna Gora i njihovi organi vlasti – paradržavna tvorevina Republika Srpska izvršile su genocid na Bošnjacima, pripadnicima nacionalne, etniÄke i vjerske grupe kao takve. Taj zloÄin genocida, po svom obimu, itenzitetu, dimenzijama, namjerama, naÄinu, ciljevima i posljedicama, posebno je izražen u Srebrenici, sigurnoj zoni UN-a, jula 1995, kada je srpski agresor ( Savezna republika Jugoslavija – Srbija i Crna Gora) je, uz uÄešÄ‡e svojih (srpskih) kolaboracionista i petokolonaša iz Republike Bosne i Hercegovine i sauÄesništvo dominantnog dijela meÄ‘unarodne zajednice, u i oko sigurne zone Ujedinjenih nacija Srebrenice, jula 1995, u toku jedne sedmice na hiljade zarobljenih Bošnjaka likvidirao i zatrpao u masovne grobnice; na stotine živih je zakopao; muškarce, žene i djeÄake je sakatio i klao; djecu ubijao pred oÄima majki; natjerao djeda da pojede džigericu svoga unuka; silovao žene i djevojke; protjerao oko 30.000 ljudi, uglavnom žene i djecu, priredio scene dostojne Danteovog pakla. O tim "scenama nezamislivog divljaštva" postoje brojni dokazi, meÄ‘u kojima i masovne grobnice – primarne, sekundarne i tercijarne. To su, prema ICTY-a, "zaista scene iz pakla, napisane na najmaraÄnijim stranicama ljudske historije".
NauÄna saznanja steÄena nauÄnim istraživanjima genocida i drugih oblika zloÄina protiv ÄovjeÄnosti meÄ‘unarodnog prava u funkciji razvoja nauke o genocidu i odgovarajuće edukacije na svim nivoima obrazovanja i vaspitanja, od osnovnih škola, srednjoškolskog obrazovanja, ukljuÄujući i univerzitetsko obrazovanje na kojem se ova nesumljivo specifiÄna pojava i jedna od najsloženijih društvenih pojava nužno treba prouÄavati i nauÄno istraživati iz nauÄnih i društvenih razloga. Obrazovanje i vaspitanje u procesu uÄenja su bitne komponente socijalizacije, u kojoj se usvajaju odreÄ‘ena znanja, vrijednosti, norme, obiÄaji i kultura u funkciji sjećanja i trajnog pamćenja. To je trajna obaveza sadašnjih generacija prema svim žrtvama holokausta i genocida, ukljuÄujući i genocid u Srebrenici.
Obaveza svih nas jeste da otkrijemo i utvrdimo ljudsku, društvenu i nauÄnu istinu o genocidu i drugim oblicima zloÄina protiv ÄovjeÄnosti i meÄ‘unarodnog prava, kao bitan uslov za ostvarivanje pravde i prava, bez kojih nije moguće postići pomirenje i graditi zajedniÄku budućnost države Bosne i Hercegovine, kao prototipni model razvoja savremene civilizacije i kulture u Evropi i svijetu.
Kanadska vlada u kontinuitetu na poseban naÄin ispoljava senzibilitet i pijetet prema žrtvama genocida u Bosni i Hercegovini, a posebno u Srebrenici. To potvrÄ‘uje i podizanje spomen obilježja žrtvama genocida u Srebrenici u Windsoru, koje će sve nas preživjele žrtve genocida, svjedoke i potomke i slobodno demokratsko društvo Kanade, koje ima razvijenu, ne samo individualnu, već i društvenu svijest o tome, trajno podsjećati na najveće zlo izvršeno nad nevinim, golorukim, bespomoćnim i nevinim ljudskim bićima samo zbog njihove nacionalne, etniÄke, rasne i vjerske pripadnosti kao takve.
Koristim datu privilegovanu mogućnost da kao, prije svega, Äovjek, a zatim istraživaÄ i žrtva genocida, u svoje ime i u ime svih žrtava genocida u Republici Bosni i Hercegovini izrazim iskrenu i najdublju ljudsku zahvalnost Kanadi što je: priznala bosanski jezik kao World heritage language; što se bošnjaÄki narodno upotrebljava u statistiÄkim i drugim kanadskim podacima; što je Parlament Kanade usvojio dvije rezolucije o genocidu u Srebrenici i Republici Bosni i Hercegovini; što su gradovi Hamilton i Windsor odali poÄast žrtvama genocida u Srebrenici; što kanadska Vlada obilježava 31. maj kao Svjetski dan bijelih traka; što je Vlada Kanade zatražila primjenu odluke Ustavnog suda Bosne i Hercegovine o neustavnosti proslave 9. januara; što se u Kanadskom muzeju za ljudska prava nalazi stalna izložbena postavka o genocidu u Srebrenici i Bosni i Hercegovini; što se prepoznaje znaÄaj Dana nezavisnosti Bosne i Hercegovine i Dana državnosti Bosne i Hercegovine, kao i otvaranje spomenika u Windsoru.
Istovremeno neizmjernu zahvalnost iskazujem Bosansko – hercegovaÄkom klubu Windsor za kontinuiranu podršku u procesu lobiranja za istinu i pravdu. Posebnu zahvalnost iskazujem organizatorima podizanja ovog spomenika žrtvama genocida u Srebrenici.
It has been a generally accepted fact that at the end of the 20th century in the heart of Europe, Serbia and Montenegro and their authorities – pseudo-state creation Republika Srpska committed in a small Balkan state – the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the crime of genocide against Bosniacs, members of a national, ethnic, and religious group as such. This crime of genocide, by its extent, intensity, intentions, modus operandi, objectives, and consequences, was particularly noticeable in Srebrenica, the UN Safe Area in July 1995, when the Serbian aggressor (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – Serbia and Montenegro) along with their (Serb) collaborators and fifth-column from the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the accomplices from the dominant part of the international community, in and around UN Safe Area Srebrenica, during only one week in July 1995, captured, killed and buried in mass graves thousands of Bosniacs; buried alive hundreds of them; mutilated and slaughtered men, women, and boys; killed children before their mothers; forced a grandfather to eat the liver of his grandson; raped women and girls; expelled around 30,000 people, mainly women and children, presented the scenes from the Dante’s Hell. There are ample pieces of evidence attesting to these “scenes of unimaginable savagery”, including mass graves – primary, secondary, and tertiary. According to the ICTY, these are “indeed the scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human civilization”.
Scientific findings acquired in course of research of genocide and other forms of crimes against humanity and international law, serving the function of development of the science of genocide and appropriate education at all levels of education, from the primary schools, then secondary schools, including the university level education, on the basis of which this specific social phenomenon has to be studied and scientifically researched, both for the scientific and social reasons. Education in the process of teaching is an essential component of socialization, in which certain knowledge, values, norms, customs, and cultures are acquired, all serving the function of memory and permanent remembrance. This is a permanent obligation of the present generations towards all the victims of the Holocaust and genocide, including the victims of the Srebrenica genocide.
It is the obligation of all of us to detect and identify the human, social, and scientific truth about genocide and other forms of crimes against humanity and international law, being an important condition for achieving the justice and rights, without which it is not possible to get the reconciliation and build the common future in Bosnia and Herzegovina and of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, being the prototype model of the development of contemporary civilization and culture in Europe and the rest of the world.
The Government of Canada has continuously and in a specific manner displayed its sensibility and piety towards the genocide victims in Bosnia and Herzegovina, particularly Srebrenica victims. The proof is also this monument to the Srebrenica genocide victims here in Windsor, which will permanently remind all of us surviving genocide victims, witnesses, and successors, including the free democratic society in Canada with its developed individual and societal consciousness about the worst evil committed against the innocent, barehanded, and helpless human beings, just because of their national, ethnic, racial, and religious background.
I am taking this privileged possibility to express, primarily as a human being, then a scholar and genocide victim, on my own behalf and on behalf of all the genocide victims in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the sincerest and deepest human gratitude to Canada for: recognizing Bosnian language as a World heritage language; using Bosniac ethnic in all the statistical and other Canadian data; adopting two Resolutions on genocide in Srebrenica and in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Canadian Parliament; the towns of Hamilton and Windsor that paid tribute to the genocide victims in Srebrenica; celebrating the 31st May in Canada as the World Day of White Ribbons; the request of the Canadian Government to implement the Bosnia and Herzegovina Constitutional Court decision on non‑constitutionality of 9 January; having the permanent exhibition on the genocide in Srebrenica and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights; recognizing the relevance of the Independence Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Statehood Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as opening of the monument in Windsor.
I would like to thank all the activists of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Club Windsor for their continuous support in lobbying for the truth and justice. I would like to express my particular gratitude to the organizers of building this monument to the Srebrenica genocide victims.
Studying scientifically genocide and other forms of crimes against humanity and international law does not include and does not require only the knowledge of the science of genocide, methods of genocide research, but it is rather the matter of bravery, principle attitude, human dignity, and consistency in disclosing the human, social, and scientific, truth and its presentation to the scientific and general public, by which we influence the individual and social awareness related to the development of the positive system of social values, and label evil, and at the same time create conditions for its social, legal, and moral sanctioning. In this process of registration of experience (indirect and direct) through the remembrance, comparison, and valuing, it is important, among other things, to affirm and develop positive and good in fighting this worst social evil, as genocide is.
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