The initiative to adopt a resolution on Srebrenica in the United Nations General Assembly has been postponed, as countries harbor doubts, and it is good that they are skeptical. “This is an ugly, disgusting political initiative,” says Gideon Graif, president of the Independent Commission for the Investigation of the Suffering of All Peoples in the Srebrenica Region from 1992 to 1995, in an interview with RTRS.
“We advocate for morality. We advocate for a good future for people. We want people to be happy. Every normal human being wants to live happily on this earth, not to participate in wars. Politicians sometimes want the opposite, and this is truly about revenge, and we are against it. Our commission is a moral commission, and politicians are not always moral. On behalf of the 10 members of our commission, I can clearly say that this initiative will not bring any reconciliation, peace, or harmony to the region. On the contrary, it will provoke doubts, deepen the conflict, and exacerbate the roots of conflict that have existed in this area for decades or more,” emphasized Graif.
He says that while their report is aimed at peace, harmony, and dialogue, the UN resolution, he believes, will lead to the opposite.
“The UN resolution is not based on facts, on science, on historical facts, it is based on political assumptions, on political ambitions, on politics. This is fundamentally bad if you truly want to bring people together to build a better future. That is what we want, but I fear this initiative will lead us in the other direction and have only bad outcomes, which is really not what this region needs today,” explains Graif.
He adds that between 1.1 and 1.3 million Serbs were exposed to brutal murders and threats of being killed by enemy forces, Muslims, Bosniaks, and others, from 1992 to 1995.
“This is a fact that the UN resolution completely ignores. It is a fact that is not included in the propaganda that we, the members of the Commission, often hear,” Graif noted for RTRS.
Source: RTRS
