The draft resolution declaring July 11 as the International Day of Remembrance of the Genocide in Srebrenica will be presented today at a closed meeting at the United Nations. Chairman of the BiH Presidency Denis Bećirović and member of the BiH Presidency Željko Komšić are traveling to New York on this occasion. Genocide survivors believe that this resolution could be a step towards lasting peace.
The families of the victims of the Srebrenica genocide hope that the Serbian people will have the sense and courage to finally recognize the truth from the imposed political manipulations about the genocide committed against the Bosniaks of Srebrenica in July 1995. The expected Resolution in the UN could be a step in that direction.
FADILA EFENDIĆ, president of the “Srebrenica Mothers” Association, Srebrenica
“I believe in people of good will, in normal people, I don’t need anyone to be good, just let them be true.” Let him abide by what has been decided by the court, what has been proven, and let them do so and it will be all right. Well, I can’t understand those deniers, and they fight so much against the Resolution, every lie has short legs, it can’t be eternal.”
Regardless of the current huge opposition of the authorities from Republika Srpska and the political leadership of Serbia, the surviving victims of the Srebrenica genocide say that this Resolution can lead to the reconciliation of the people in the long term.
KADA HOTIĆ, vice president of the Association “Mothers of the Srebrenica and Žepa Enclaves”
“It should put an end to that topic.” That’s truth, and there is no other. Criminals, each one from his own people, we condemn the crime, we move on, we will choose the right path, we will choose justice. However, what is it in them that they fight so convulsively, that they deny it, that it is not true? The facts are, the world court condemned it.”
SALIH MULALIĆ, president of the Association “Genocide Survivors Graphics text July 11, 1995”
“After the Resolution, they should turn to the reality of what happened in ’95, and lasting peace, and true peace, will be the moment when Serbia accepts the facts of the genocide that took place in ’95. of July.”
Due to the growth of political tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the information that the UN will discuss the Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica, the surviving victims of the Srebrenica genocide call on the state authorities and the international community to provide additional security to the returnees in Srebrenica.
