Bosnischer Akademischer Kreis e.V
info@bak-online.org
München, 21.02.2011
Office of the President
Prof. Stephen J. Toope, PhD
The University of British Columbia
6328 Memorial Road
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2
Uvaženi profesore Toope,
Bosanski akademski krug (BAK) Vam se obraća kako bi izrazio zaprepaštenje u vezi planiranog predavanja poznatog negatora genocida gospodina SrÄ‘ana Trifkovića na Vašoj prestižnoj akademskoj instituciji. Predavanje je organizirano od strane Asocijacije srpskih studenata.
BAK se nada da je odluka donesena zbog neinformiranosti o pozadini gospodina Trifkovića i saznanja o njegovim prethodnim radnjama, od kojih mnoge sadrže konstantno i otvoreno poricanje genocida u Srebrenici, koji je u više navrata potvrÄ‘en od strane MeÄ‘unarodnog suda pravde i MeÄ‘unarodnog kaznenog suda za bivšu Jugoslaviju, kao Äin genocida u skladu sa Poveljom Ujedinjenih naroda.
Uvreda je za sve one koji istinski cijene vrijednost ljudskog života, ako bi se dodijelila akademska platforma osobi, koji je otvoren apologeta politike mržnje i izvršioca genocida i koji dalje propovijeda negiranje genocida bez obzira na dogaÄ‘aje koji su se dogodili tokom agresije na Bosnu i Hercegovinu.
Mi dugujemo svim žrtvama genocida, ne samo u Bosni i Hercegovini, da distanciramo tzv. akademike, koji žele da nas truju s teorijama zavjere i mržnje.
Stoga tražimo od Vas da djelujete odgovorno i ne dozvolite g. Trifkoviću da održi predavanje na Vašem univerzitetu, instituciji koja je poznata po akademskoj izvrsnosti i uÄenju.
Za BAK
Amer Sabitović
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Bosnischer Akademischer Kreis e.V
info@bak-online.org
München, 21.02.2011
Office of the President
Prof. Stephen J. Toope, PhD
The University of British Columbia
6328 Memorial Road
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2
Dear Professor Toope,
On behalf of the Bosnian Academic Circle (BAC) would like to express our dismay at the news that a well known genocide denier Srdja Trifkovic is scheduled to speak at an event organized by the Serbian Students Association at your prestigious academic institution.
BAC hopes that this decision was made by the lack of awareness about Mr. Trifkovic’s background and previous works, many of which contain repeated and open denials of the Srebrenica Genocide, an event that was, case after case, reaffirmed, by the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, as an act of genocide according to the United Nations charter.
It would be an insult to all those who truly value human life, to provide an academic platform to someone who is an open apologist of politics of hatred and propagates further genocide denial regarding the events that occurred during the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We owe it to the victims of genocide everywhere, not just in Bosnia, to honor them by performing our duties as human beings to disengage from those so called scholars who wish to poison us with conspiracy theories and hateful propaganda.
Therefore, we strongly urge you to act responsibly and disallow Mr. Trifkovic from holding a lecture at your university, an institution well known internationally for academic excellence and learning.
Bosnian Academic Circle
Amer Sabitović