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A few photos from my lecture at the Conference: “The beginning of horrors in B&H and genocide against Bosniaks in the heart of Europe”.

A few photos from my lecture at the Conference: “The beginning of horrors in B&H and genocide against Bosniaks in the heart of Europe”. I am glad to meet the good Bosnian friends, professors David Pettigrew, Ann Petrila, and John Hubel Weiss. The international conference named ‘Legal and Political Consequences of the Declaration on the Proclamation of the Republic of the Serb People of Bosnia and Herzegovina on January 9, 1992,’ which is taking place on Wednesday and Thursday with 36 scholars and researchers from the US, UK, Croatia, Australia, Canada, Norway, North Macedonia and Bosnia participating. The goal of the international conference is to review the circumstances and anti-constitutional decisions which brought about the destruction and the genocide as well as possible legal and political implications of rulings by international and national courts regarding the issue. The event was organised by the Institute for Social and Religious Research, the Movement of Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa Enclaves, the Institute for Research of Genocide Canada, the Tuzla Canton Archives, the Centre for Research of Modern and Contemporary History and the Institute for Research of War Crimes of the Sarajevo University.
The Constitutional Court banned the January 9th celebration of the Day of the RS in 2015. The reason stated was that the celebration falls on the same date as an Orthodox religious holiday, and celebrating it is, therefore, discriminating against the mostly Muslim Bosniaks and the mostly Catholic Croats. But RS leadership then organized a referendum in the entity at which the predominantly Serb citizens voted in favour of January 9th being the date for the holiday. Despite the Constitutional Court ruling, the RS Government adopted in 2016 a Law on the holiday which says it will take place on that date. The January 9 celebration is an unconstitutional and criminal act. That is the date when the genocide and mass casualties in Bosnia and Herzegovina began.

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