Three-day conference dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide begins in Sarajevo

(Patria) - As part of the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, a three-day International Scientific Conference "Srebrenica - 30 Years Later: Remembrance, Responsibility, and the Challenges of Denial" begins at the Sarajevo City Hall.

Sead Turčalo, Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences (FPN) in Sarajevo, speaking to BHRT, stated that 30 years after the genocide, there is still a very sophisticated and coordinated plan, or rather a political strategy, not only of denial but also of glorification of the genocide committed against Bosniaks in and around Srebrenica.

According to him, denying the genocide is not a right to a different opinion; it is a profound moral void and an immoral distortion of facts.

- In the past few years, we have been intensely confronting a well-funded, even internationally coordinated project of genocide denial.

That is why such a conference is important, because every analysis of historical documents, every footnote that is written, every scientific contribution that is made is a step that diminishes the effects of that denial.

Especially in this new post-media, digital environment where everyone, in fact, has the space to reach a certain layer of people and promote it as some alternative reality.

There is no alternative reality; there are historical facts, what has been established by international court rulings, what we have heard from United Nations resolutions, and that is the truth about the genocide - Turčalo said.

The organizer of the International Scientific Conference "Srebrenica - 30 Years Later: Remembrance, Responsibility, and the Challenges of Denial" is the University of Sarajevo, and genocide researchers from around the world are participating in its work.