Why was the vote on the Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica postponed? | Genocide in Srebrenica

“I am proud of the fight in the UN,” says Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić who, with a team of 25 people, plus 100 people from the Russian mission to the United Nations, wants to stop the adoption of the resolution on the genocide committed in Srebrenica in 1995.

It would have been much better if he tried to stop the genocide in the year in which he called for the killing of “100 Muslims for one Serb”. Perhaps he could have done something as a young minister of propaganda in Milošević’s government as a member of the Serbian Radical Party. Let’s say don’t utter that threat. And 29 years later, now a middle-aged Serbian radical and president of Serbia, he is trying to use the blood of those killed in the genocide to gather the “Serbian world” and stop what cannot be stopped – the truth.

Vučić even dismissed the previous ambassador of Serbia to the UN, Nemanja Stevanović, because he discovered late what “Bosniak diplomats” were doing in the world organization – that they were preparing a resolution that would label the Serbs as genocidaires.

Vučić knows very well that this is not true, because nothing Serbian or Bosnian-Serb is mentioned anywhere in the draft resolution. The text calls for the establishment of a Day of Remembrance for Srebrenica, just as there is a Day of Remembrance for the victims of the genocide in Rwanda. But, no… Aleksandar Vučić, in the style of a crusader, visits diplomatic missions and, together with the Russians, spreads the story that the resolution will lead to conflict. Really? Similar resolutions led to reconciliation in South Africa and Rwanda. And life continued in those countries without residual, murderous, hatred. Precisely because the truth was told.

It is not the first time that the term has been moved

We now know that the United Nations General Assembly will not vote on the draft resolution on May 2, but a few days later. After all, it is not the first time that term has been changed. Do you remember April 27, about which Vučić himself spoke so much?

Why is there a new shift now? That is why the text of the resolution should be “washed” a little more, refined… to take into account the suggestions of other countries. Nothing out of the ordinary for diplomacy. The resolution will be voted on on another day.

Vučić and Russian ambassador Vasilij Nebenzya “wring their hands” to weaker countries, and there are many of them. Nebenzya comes here as a kind of bully after Vučić asks something from the representative of a country that is hesitating about the resolution. The same way that his boss Vladimir Putin “twists his hands” with Ukrainians, and then kills them. That’s Vučić’s diplomacy. All force. If he was a more capable politician, he would have good intelligence officers, but he doesn’t have them. If he were a good politician, he would have better diplomats, but there are none. He has “mother” Russia – and that’s all.

International courts judge, not individuals

So far, the resolution proposal has 22 sponsors from all continents and there will be more. The democratic world supports the resolution, the autocratic world supports those who were the executioners. When you have North Korea on your side then it is crystal clear that something is wrong with you.

And finally, one question for Aleksandar Vučić, who these days is clamoring that Serbia will seek a resolution on the genocide committed in Jasenovac and some other terrible human sufferings. I suggest that he proceed with the procedure. First, two international courts, the criminal court and the court of justice, should issue verdicts that genocide against Serbs was committed in Jasenovac. After that, with those two verdicts, Serbia can ask the General Assembly of the United Nations to adopt a resolution on the Day of Remembrance for those killed in the genocide, but that the resolution does not say who the killers are. Then Serbia will face the fact that at least half of the world will not support that resolution. Just as Serbia and Russia are doing everything to prevent a resolution on Srebrenica. Serbia will rightly be angry then, asking how this is possible… but there will be many who do not think that genocide was committed in Jasenovac.

To be clear: I, as an individual, think that genocide was committed in Jasenovac, but who am I to judge someone? There are international courts.