Israel’s ambassador to Serbia, Jahel Vilan, denied the genocide in Srebrenica by saying that Israel would have voted for a resolution on Srebrenica in the UN if it believed that genocide had taken place there.
“We have never accepted the term genocide according to what happened in Srebrenica,” said Israel’s ambassador to Serbia.
He told Tanjug “that a very serious war crime definitely happened there, but from the Israeli point of view, it does not represent the term genocide.”
Vilan will soon leave Serbia because his mandate has ended.
Despite this opinion of the Israeli diplomat, two courts of the United Nations (UN) ruled that the Bosnian Serb army and police committed genocide in Srebrenica.
The International Court of Justice condemned Serbia for violating the Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide because it did not do enough to prevent the genocide in Srebrenica, and the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia stated in several judgments that genocide took place in Srebrenica.
The UN General Assembly adopted a Resolution declaring July 11 as the International Day of Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide, against which Serbia waged a fierce diplomatic campaign in which it was ultimately defeated. Israel is one of the countries that did not vote at all, Klix.ba writes.
