Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Bosnia and Herzegovina / Switzerland / Srebrenica Massacre / Genocide Denial

Rights Group Sues Paper for Bosnia Genocide Denial
Associated Press dispatch on FoxNews.com, April 20, 2010
"A human rights group is suing a Swiss newspaper for denying there was a Serb genocide of Bosnian Muslims in the town of Srebrenica in 1995. Fadila Memisevic, of the Bosnian branch of the Germany-based Society for Threatened Peoples, said her organization filed suit jointly Monday with the Swiss Association Against Impunity, TRIAL, in Lausanne. Swiss law prohibits genocide denial. The semimonthly La Nation recently published a series of articles claiming that 2,000 soldiers were killed in the "pseudo-massacre" in Srebrenica. Bosnian Serb forces overran the Muslim Bosniak town in July 1995 and executed 8,000 men and boys in the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. In 2007, the International Court of Justice ruled the executions were genocide."
[n.b. This is the complete text of the dispatch.]

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