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Protestno Pismo Simon Wiesenthal Centru u Vezi Negiranja Genocida u BiH

Protestno Pismo Simon Wiesenthal Centru u Vezi Negiranja Genocida u BiH

December 30, 2013

U ime sjevernoameričkih Bošnjaka, žrtava i svijedoka agresije na Republiku Bosnu i Hercegovina i genocida protiv njenih graÄ‘ana šaljemo vam zvaničan protest protiv komentara vašeg aktiviste Effraima Zuroffa u kome negira genocid u Srebrenici i Bosni i Hercegovini.

Srpske “Nezavisne novine” su prije tri dana prenijele izjavu gospodina Zuroff-a u kojoj je javno negirao genocid u Bosni i Hercegovini. Ako su navodi u spomenutim novinama, tačni onda nažalost moramo konstatovati da  i gospodin Zuroff nažalost spada u grupu onih koji negiraju sudski dokazani genocid nad Bosnjacima u Bosni i Hercegovini za vrijeme srpsko – crnogorske agresije.

(link: http://www.nezavisne.com/novosti/bih/Zurof-U-BiH-nije-bilo-genocida-224134.html).

Nerazumljivo je da neko ko radi za tako važnu medjunarodnu organizaciju, čija je glavna misija istraživanje i sjećanje na Holokaust, može sebi dozvoliti da bude iskorišten od strane onih koji pokušavaju po ko zna koji put poturiti revizionizam i mitologiju potkrepljenu lažima čitavom svijetu vezano za genocid i rat u BiH. Naime, šokantno je, škodljivo, i sramotno, da žrtve genocida i njihove familije opet moraju da trpe nemjerljiv bol, bol koji uzrokuje negiranje genocida, ne samo od onih koji su učestvovali i pomagali u grozotama i ideologiji mržnje nego i sad od onih koji trebaju da upotrebe lekcije Holokausta da zaštite i unaprijede ljudska prava, slobodu i dostojanstvo te da se genocid više nikada i nikome ne ponovi. Genocid u Srebrenici je pravna, sudska, historijska i naučno istraživacka  činjenica, dokazana od dva meÄ‘unarodna i više nacionalna suda, u kojim su učestovali i osobe koje su preživjele Holokaust, koji su zaključili da je udruženo zločinačko sistematsko, organizovano ubijanje vise od 8,000 pripadnika bošnjackog stanovništva u Srebrenici je nepobitan dokaz genocida.

Sudija Theodor Meron (koji je preživio holokaust) predsjedavao je u žalbenom predmetu Radislava Krstića kada je MeÄ‘unarodni krivični sud za bivšu Jugoslaviju donio jednoglasnu presudu:

“Kao jedan od najtežih zločina koje ovaj MeÄ‘unarodni sud ima nadležnost da kažnjava, zločin genocida se izdvaja po tome što je posebno sramotan i zaslužuje posebnu osudu… Težina genocida ogleda se u strogim zahtjevima koji se moraju zadovoljiti prije no što se donese osuÄ‘ujuća presuda za to krivično djelo. Ti zahtjevi – uslov postojanja dokaza posebne namjere i pokazatelja da je cijela grupa, ili njen znatan dio, bila odreÄ‘ena za uništenje – čuvaju od opasnosti da se osuda za to krivično djelo izrekne olako. Kada se, meÄ‘utim, zadovolje ovi uslovi, pravda se ne smije skanjivati da počinjeni zločin nazove njegovim pravim imenom. Nastojeći eliminirati dio bosanskih Muslimana, snage bosanskih Srba su počinile genocid. Oni su odredili za uništenje četrdeset hiljada [40.000] Muslimana stanovnika Srebrenice, koji su kao grupa predstavljali bosanske Muslimane uopšte. Oni su svim zarobljenim muškarcima Muslimanima, i vojnicima i civilima, starim i mladim, oduzeli njihove lične stvari i dokumente te ih smišljeno i metodično ubijali isključivo na osnovu njihove pripadnosti. Snage bosanskih Srba su bile svjesne, kada su se upustile u svoj genocidni poduhvat, da će bosanskim Muslimanima zlo koje su im nanijele donijeti trajne nevolje. Žalbeno vijeće s potpunim uvjerenjem izjavljuje da pravda osuÄ‘uje, odgovarajućim formulacijama, ogromnu i trajnu štetu koja je nanesena i pokolj u Srebrenici naziva njegovim pravim imenom: genocid. Odgovorni će nositi ovu stigmu, i ona će služiti kao upozorenje za budućnost svima onima koji pomisle da počine takvo gnusno djelo.”

Za vrijeme srpsko-crnogorske agresije i genocida u Bosni i Hercegovini, Simon Wiesenthal je lobirao za Bošnjake koji su bili žrtve ove agresije.

Pogledajte link http://bosniakandjewishfriendship.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/nazi-hunter-simon-wiesenthal-demands-weapons-for-bosnian-muslims/

Mozemo konstatovati da je gospodin Wiesenthal danas živ sigurno bi se stidio  izjava i postupaka nekog ko radi za centar koji nosi njegovo ime, a negira upotrebu termina genocide da opiše zločine koji su počinjeni nad bošnjačkim civilima.

Izričito zahtjevamo da se vaš institut izvine za izjave gospodina Zuroff-a, kao i da se i distancirate od srpskih nacionalista koji pokušavaju praviti revizionisticku historiju koja se zasniva na negiranju genocida. Ako navedene izjave nisu izjave gospodina Zuroff-a zahtjevamo javni demantij istih. U vjeri da ćete naše iskrene namjere shvatiti ozbiljno i da će gospodin Zuroff ipak reagovati ispravno, a ako ne onda snositi posljedice vašeg uvaženog instituta. Mi se nadamo da ćete ovo pitanje shvatiti ozbiljnim, jer mislimo da članovi vašeg instituta razumiju posljedice holokausta i genocida i negiranje istih.

Sa poštovanjem,

Prof. Emir Ramić

Direktor Instituta za istraživanje genocida Kanada

Mr. Hamdija Čustović

Predsjednik Kongresa Bošnjaka Sjeverne Amerike

Prof. dr. Dawid Pettigrew

Profesor Filozofije, Southern Connecticut State University,

ÄŒlan, Upravnog odbora, Yale University za Genocid studije program,

Član Međunarodnog tima stručnjaka Instituta za istraživanje genocida Kanada,

Član Odbora, Bosanskog američkog instituta za genocid i obrazovanje, Chicago

Prof. dr. Smail Čekić

Direktor Instituta za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava Univerziteta u Sarajevu

Prof. dr. Senadin Lavić

Predsjednik Bošnjačke Zajednice Kulture “Preporod”, Sarajevo

Mr. Sanja Seferović Drnovšek

Direktor, Bosansko američkog instituta za genocid i edikacijskog centra

Prof. dr. Francis A. Boyle

Profesor meÄ‘unarodnog prava na Univerzitetu Illinois, nekadašnji agent BiH pred MeÄ‘unarodnim sudom pravde

Mr. Marjan Hajnal

Magistar političkih nauka, nezavisan analitičar i publicist, živi u Izraelu od 23. 06. 1993.

Prof. Dr Marko Attila Hoare

Fakultet umjetnosti i društvenih nauka, Univerzitet, Kingston University, London

 

 

 

 

 

 

Protest Letter to the Simon Wiesenthal Center Regarding Genocide Denial by Effraim Zuroff

December 30, 2013

On behalf of Bosniaks in the U.S. and Canada and survivors of the Bosnian genocide, we protest the comments made by one of your activists Effraim Zuroff denying the genocide in Srebrenica and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Serb nationalist newspapers reported today that Mr. Zuroff publicly denied that genocide took place in Bosnia-Herzegovina. According to their media, he stated there was no genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, thus reducing himself to a genocide denier (link: http://www.nezavisne.com/novosti/bih/Zurof-U-BiH-nije-bilo-genocida-224134.html)

It is incomprehensible that someone who works for such an important international organization whose mission includes remembrance of the lessons of the Holocaust, would allow themselves to be used by the Serb nationalists to openly deny genocide against Bosniaks during the war from 1992-1995. In fact, it is shocking, hurtful, and disgraceful that the victims of genocide and their families must again suffer the anguish of genocide denial, not only by those who participated and supported the atrocities and the ideology of hatred, but now by those who are supposed to apply the lessons of Holocaust to promote human rights and dignity, and ensure genocide never happens to anyone anywhere. Srebrenica Genocide is a legal fact, established by two international courts; both presided by Jewish holocaust survivors, who concluded that systematic executions of 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in Srebrenica alone constituted genocide.

In the Krstic judgement by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, presiding Judge Theodor Meron, a Polish-American Jew and a holocaust survivor, concluded that Srebrenica was Genocide (numerous other judgments found the same reasoning, including the highest World Court):  “The gravity of genocide is reflected in the stringent requirements which must be satisfied before this conviction is imposed. These requirements – the demanding proof of specific intent and the showing that the group was targeted for destruction in its entirety or in substantial part – guard against a danger that convictions for this crime will be imposed lightly. Where these requirements are satisfied, however, the law must not shy away from referring to the crime committed by its proper name. By seeking to eliminate a part of the Bosnian Muslims, the Bosnian Serb forces committed genocide. They targeted for extinction the forty thousand

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. The Bosnian Serb forces were aware, when they embarked on this genocidal venture that the harm they caused would continue to plague the Bosnian Muslims. The Appeals Chamber states unequivocally that the law condemns, in appropriate terms, the deep and lasting injury inflicted, and calls the massacre at Srebrenica by its proper name: genocide. Those responsible will bear this stigma, and it will serve as a warning to those who may in future contemplate the commission of such a heinous act.”

During Serb-led genocide policies in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Simon Wiesenthal himself lobbied on behalf of Bosniaks who were the victims of this aggression.

See link: (http://bosniakandjewishfriendship.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/nazi-hunter-simon-wiesenthal-demands-weapons-for-bosnian-muslims/).

If Mr. Wiesenthal were alive today, we can only imagine how he would have felt to learn that one of the activists of the organization bearing his name, reportedly, denies the use of the term genocide to refer to the heinous crimes committed against Bosniak civilians.

We respectfully demand that your institute apologizes for the hurtful comments reportedly made by your activist Effraim Zuroff, and thus distance yourself from extreme Serbian nationalists who are now perpetuating revisionist history based on genocide denial. If these reports are somehow incorrect, then we ask for a public explanation from Mr. Zuroff and the Simon Wiesenthal center. We hope that you will take this matter very seriously as we believe the members of your institute understand the ultimate ramifications of holocaust and genocide denial.

Respectfully,

Professor Emir Ramic, Chair

The Institute for Research of Genocide, Canada

Hamdija Custovic, MBA, President

The Congress of North American Bosniaks

David Pettigrew, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University,

Member, Steering Committee, Yale University Genocide Studies Program,

International Team of Experts Institute for Research of Genocide Canada,

Board Member, Bosnian American Genocide Institute and Education Center, Chicago, IL

Professor Smail Cekic, PhD

Director, Institute for Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law, University of Sarajevo

Professor Senadin Lavic, PhD

President, Bosniak Cultural Association, Sarajevo

Sanja Seferovic-Drnovsek J.D, MEd, Chair

Bosnian American Genocide Institute and Education Center

Marjan Hajnal, M.Sc.

Master of political sciences, independent analyst and publicist, living in Israel since 23. 06. 1993.

Professor Francis A. Boyle, PhD

Professor of International law at the University of Illinois, a former agent of Bosnia and Herzegovina before the International Court of Justice

Marko Attila Hoare, PhD

Professor Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Kingston University, London

 

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