IGK: The Greater Serbian assembly has moved to Sarajevo!

(Patria) - The Institute for Research of Genocide Canada has issued a reaction regarding the planned commemoration of the Day of the Army of Serbia in Sarajevo and the Day of Statehood of Serbia.

"At the so-called all-Serbian assembly held in June last year, it was agreed that the Day of Statehood of Serbia would also be celebrated as the day of statehood of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian entity RS.

Bearing in mind the aforementioned decision of the so-called all-Serbian assembly, the IGK states that the mentioned commemoration in the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a victim of aggression by Serbia, is an anti-human, anti-civilizational, dehumanizing act that deeply humiliates the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, offends all its citizens, especially the victims of aggression and genocide, and mars the peace in the region.

The IGK once again emphasizes that the so-called all-Serbian assembly is a continuation of the process of creating a 'Greater Serbia', whose primary target is the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Greater Serbian assembly in Belgrade denies the sovereignty of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, violates and rejects the Dayton Peace Agreement, spreads national hatred, and creates new conflict tensions in the region. The goal is to finalize the destruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina by seizing its territory," the reaction states.

The IGK also emphasizes once again that in as many as four judgments of the Hague Tribunal, through detailed examination, it was established that the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina was an international armed conflict between the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

These are the following judgments:

1. Judgment of the Trial Chamber in the Čelebići case from 1998.

2. Judgment of the Appeals Chamber in the case against Duško Tadić from 1999.

3. Judgment of the Appeals Chamber in the Čelebići case from 2001.

4. Judgment of the Trial Chamber in the case against the wartime Vice-President of the RS Government, Radoslav Brđanin, from 2004.

5. Judgment of the International Court of Justice in the case of the lawsuit of BiH against Serbia from 2007.

What is extremely significant is that the judgment of the International Court of Justice from 2007 in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia (paragraph 404) explicitly confirmed that the Hague Tribunal applied the correct legal criterion (overall control test) in the aforementioned judgments when determining the international character of the conflict.

The genocide in Srebrenica is the greatest crime committed after World War II in Europe. The regime of Slobodan Milošević is an accomplice to the committed genocide, as Serbia provided political, military, logistical, and financial assistance to the Army of Republika Srpska.

The state of Serbia is the first and, to date, the only country in the world that has been found responsible by a judgment of the International Court of Justice (2007) for violating the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide because its state bodies had information about the genocide but did nothing to prevent the genocide in Srebrenica.

Bearing the above in mind, the IGK calls on the competent state authorities to send a protest note to the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Bosnia and Herzegovina.