The Prime Minister of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, Blaine M. Higgs, and the Mayor of Halifax, Mike Savage, the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, issued proclamations on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica. Among other things, the prime minister and the mayor referred to the recently adopted resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations, which declared July 11 as the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Srebrenica Genocide.
In the proclamations, the Prime Minister and the Mayor referred to the verdicts of international courts on the genocide in Srebrenica, two resolutions of the Canadian Parliament on the genocide in Srebrenica, the highlighting of the genocide in Srebrenica in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and Freedoms and the just adopted resolution of the UN General Assembly on the genocide in Srebrenica.
They invited their citizens to join the Canadians and especially the surviving victims of the Srebrenica genocide who live in Canada in commemorating the genocide, remembering the victims of the genocide and condemning the biggest crime after the Holocaust in Europe.
The director of the Canadian Genocide Research Institute thanked the prime minister and the mayor and all citizens of the province of New Brunswick and the city of Halifax for their continuous contribution to the institutionalization of the culture of remembrance of the genocide in Srebrenica.
“Your proclamations give new strength to those who want instead of a culture of lies, denial of the truth and glorification of convicted war criminals and revisionism to turn to a culture of truth, memory, justice in the name of trust, compassion and empathy in order to strengthen the Canadian culture of remembrance of the genocide in Srebrenica,” it was stated in the press release by the Genocide Institute in Canada (IGK).
