As part of the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, a three-day international scientific conference entitled “Srebrenica – 30 Years After: Memory, Responsibility and the Challenges of Denial” is starting in Sarajevo.
Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo Sead Turčalo, speaking to BHRT, said that 30 years after the genocide, there is still a very sophisticated and coordinated plan, or political strategy, not only to deny but also to glorify the genocide committed against Bosniaks in and around Srebrenica.
According to him, denying the genocide is not a right to a different opinion, it is a profound moral nullity and an immoral distortion of the facts.
“In the past few years, we have been intensely confronted with a well-funded, even internationally coordinated project of genocide denial. That is why this conference is important because every analysis of historical documents, every footnote that is written down, every scientific contribution that is made – is a step that reduces the effects of that denial, especially in this new post-media, digital environment in which everyone, in fact, has the space to reach a certain layer of people and promote it as an alternative reality,” said Turčalo.
“There is no alternative reality, there are historical facts, what has been established by international judgments, what we have heard from United Nations resolutions and that is the truth about genocide,” he said.
The organizer of the International Scientific Conference “Srebrenica – 30 Years Later: Memory, Responsibility and the Challenges of Denial” is the University of Sarajevo, and genocide researchers from all over the world took part in its work.
