Not every war crime is a case of genocide – opinion – Jerusalem Post

In a Jerusalem Post op-ed, Efraim Zuroff, Chief Nazi Hunter and Director of Eastern European Affairs at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, argues, “[A]nyone acquainted with [the Srebrenica] event, as well as with the original definition of ‘genocide,’ knows very well that the crime committed by the Serbian troops does not fit the definition of genocide, for the simple reason that the women and children at Srebrenica were ALL released unharmed.”

Zuroff writes that the Srebrenica resolution at the UN General Assembly “threatens to destabilize the already fragile Balkan region. The wounds of the Yugoslav Wars are far from healed, and the scars of conflict remain tender.”

He further writes, “Complicating matters further, the unilateral submission of the resolution by the BiH Ambassador oversteps the constitutional boundaries of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s foreign policy formulation, governed by its Presidency.”

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