Resolution on the genocide in Srebenica/ Balla: The time has come to put an end to the impunity of war crimes

“The resolution confirms our common conviction that the time has come to prove with deeds the will and commitment to end the impunity of war crimes and put the criminals behind bars, as for this we owe not only more than 8 thousand innocent civilians who were massacred in Sreberenica, but also over 10 thousand Albanians killed and 20 thousand Albanian women raped during the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.

The resolution strongly condemns as unacceptable and extremely dangerous the continuation and escalation of nationalist political rhetoric, the incitement of ethnic hatred and the glorification of war criminals by some individuals, groups and political and media actors inside and outside the Western Balkans.

In full compliance with the resolutions of the European Parliament, dated 7 July 2005, 15 January 2009 and 15 July 2015 on the Commemoration of the Genocide in Srebrenica, the Resolution asks the Government to honor the victims of the genocide in Srebrenica and to declare the date 11 July as the Remembrance Day of the genocide in Srebrenica”, said Balla.

The MP appealed to the MPs to put aside political agendas and vote for this resolution without exception.

Draft resolution pon the commemoration and honoring of the victims of the genocide in Srebenica:

On July 11, 1995, the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, which had long ago been declared a safe zone by UN Security Council Resolution 819, was captured by Bosnian Serb forces.

From that moment on for several days, more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys, who had sought safety in this area under the protection of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR), were barbarically executed by Bosnian Serb forces commanded by general Mladic and from the paramilitary units operating under the authority of the then President of Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadzic.

An estimated 30,000 women, children and the elderly were raped and forcibly deported in a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing.

In 1999 the UN Secretary General, in his report on the fall of Srebrenica, would state that the UN had failed to implement its mandate, particularly in relation to the protection of so-called ‘safe zones’, and thus share the responsibility.

Tragic but shameful history of modern times in the very heart of Europe of high human values ​​and democratic principles, which should serve as an alarm bell against the dangers of extreme forms of nationalism and intolerance, violence and the horrors of war that cause them .

But, unfortunately, the Srebrenica genocide turned out to be only the prelude to an even wider genocide, which soon spread to Kosovo as well.

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