World Jewish Congress
Vice President of the World Jewish Congress Menachem Rosensaft has completely rejected the conclusions on Srebrenica announced by an international commission formed by the Republika Srpska government, describing its report as a disgrace for the academic community.
The RS government on June 11 presented the report, which concluded that "neither the individual crime of genocide nor genocide in general took place in Srebrenica." The commission noted that thousands of people had been killed in the most horrific way in Srebrenica and that the perpetrators of those crimes should be punished.
Rosensaft said that the report made by the commission, headed by Israeli academic Gideon Greif, "flies in the face of the established record in international law" and "blatantly ignores" judgments of the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Radio Free Europe reported late on July 29.
He further said that the commission, formed by the RS government in February 2019, with the aim of investigating "sufferings of all people in the Srebrenica region between 1992 - 1995," had largely based the report on one dissenting trial opinion in one of the early cases processed by the ICTY.
Rosensaft said the commission had been appointed at the initiative of "a separatist, genocide-denying Bosnian Serb leader (Milorad Dodik)," and that it was headed by an Israeli academic "with a record of exaggerated pro-Serb writings and public comments."
"As the son of two survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen who were deeply committed to transmitting to future generations evidence of the crimes perpetrated against European Jewry during the Holocaust, I am especially appalled by the report’s shameless manipulation of the truth," said Rosensaft.
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