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Komšić: Legal sanctions for those who celebrate genocide

FENA Hana Imamović

VIENNA, July 11 (FENA) - At the invitation of the Alliance of Bosnian Associations in Austria, on the occasion of marking the 26th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica, member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Željko Komšić addressed today's public gathering in Vienna.

As he said, what was done in those few days in July 1995, when the so-called Army of Republika Srpska killed more than eight thousand men and boys with the tacit approval and logistical assistance of Slobodan Milošević, i.e. the political and military leadership of Serbia, represented the final and most brutal act of genocide against Bosniaks, which was systematically carried out from 1992 to 1995, almost throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, from Prijedor to Srebrenica, from Ključ to Vlasenica, from Višegrad to Sarajevo.

“Neither the preparation nor the realization of the crime of genocide against Bosniaks was hidden, but public and open, and in the end only the remains of the victims remained hidden, which we are still exhuming and trying to bury with dignity,” Komšić emphasized.

However, the truth, no matter how much the perpetrators and planners of the genocide tried to hide it, did not remain hidden, it is now judicially established, and known to the entire civilized world even to those who do not want it to be known, precisely because it is not yet acceptable to them and because they do not yet have the strength to heal that can only happen by accepting the notion of truth based on facts, real and scientific evidence.

He stressed that respecting genocide verdicts is not just a matter of human honesty or civilizational values, it is also a matter of the rule of law because there is no reconciliation without justice, and there is no justice without the rule of law.

Komšić recalls that the prohibition of genocide denial is a European heritage, as the European Convention on Human Rights and Freedoms in Article 9 clearly draws the line between freedom of speech and endangering the lives and freedoms of others, and the celebration of genocide is the driving force and motive for all those who would like to take other people's lives again.

“We must demotivate them, precisely by legal sanctions. If we do not do that, not only will they continue to rejoice over the graves of the victims, to laugh in the faces of mothers whose children were killed, but they will be additionally motivated in their intentions to commit similar crimes again,” he said.

The imposition of the Law on the Prohibition of Genocide Denial is not only an act of civilization but also a debt of the world to the victims of genocide who at the end of the twentieth century, in an internationally recognized state were left at the mercy of criminals, who have carried out the most brutal attack on the fundamental values of humanity, on the value of equality among people regardless of ethnic, religious or racial affiliation.

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