The Canadian Genocide Research Institute reacted to the release for health reasons of the former head of the Crisis Staff of the Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina and convicted war criminal Radoslav Brđanin, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison by the Hague Tribunal.
“IGK believes that this court decision is unfair and shameful, that it represents a defeat of international justice, an insult and humiliation of the victims, as well as an attack on truth and justice.
It is a heavy blow to the truth about crimes and criminals and justice for crime victims, not only in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but in the whole world. The release of Brđanin represents a great risk for reconciliation and the re-establishment of the process of recognition, respect and tolerance of the other and different in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Science has proven that the war criminal Brđanin devised a genocidal plan in the territory of Krajina. The criminal tribunal found him guilty of crimes involving persecution, torture, deportation and forced relocation committed against the non-Serb population in Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially in Krajina.
IGC believes that whoever commits the most serious forms of war crimes and crimes against humanity, whoever devises a genocidal plan for the realization of the nationalist goals of Greater Serbia with the aim of destroying or persecuting specific ethnic groups, whoever plans the division of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina for these goals, whoever does not he repents for the biggest crimes after the Second World War in Europe, he cannot be released.
His full prison sentence should have served as a warning to future generations that the most terrible crimes against humanity and civilization do not pay off – they stated in the statement.
