Institutional denial of genocide against Bosniaks and discrimination against returnees in Republika Srpska
Institutional denial of genocide against Bosniaks and discrimination against returnees in Republika Srpska

Summary/Abstract: Amending the criminal law of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which banned the denial of genocide and the celebration of the war criminals, did not stop these occurrences. Intensive drawing of murals, sharing of flyers, photographs and other similar ways of glorification and celebration of convicted war criminals have continued strongly. Recently, the engagement of the official bodies of Serbia have been noticed to be giving their full support to the negation of judicially established facts and the revision of history, as well as the protection of convicted and accused war criminals. Also, authorities of the Bosnia and Herzegovina entity, Republika Srpska do not accept the fact that Bosniak and Croat minorities live in “their” large-state territories. Those authorities, acting in according to the instructions from Memorandum 2 (It is the Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) 2, which is based on the Great Serbian policy of “blood and soil”, according to which Serbia is where the Serbs live), act in every way to send a message that there is no possibility of common life and that they do not want reconciliation. They continue to further dismantle Bosnian society and constantly aim for the secession of the smaller entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Obviously, they have developed a strategy in that field as well, in which coordinated action is taken at the local, regional and international levels. With this work, we want to highlight the latest phenomena of institutional denial of the genocide against Bosniaks, and the continued occurrence of violations of basic human rights of Bosniaks and Croats living in Republika Srpska. Therefore, the criminal ideology that led to aggression and genocide was not abandoned but is merely carried out in other ways, which we will discuss in more detail later in the paper.

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