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SARAJEVO, August 14 (FENA) - The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, U.S. Embassy to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the strongly condemn the cynical utilization of the Srebrenica Commission’s Report of 2004 for political purposes in the run-up to the elections.
The politicization of the Report does not serve the interests of justice and reconciliation, undermines the rule of law, does not represent European values, and ultimately threatens the delivery of justice to war crimes victims of all ethnicities.
The report helped enable Bosnia and Herzegovina’s communities to move forward and to strive towards reconciliation and peace. Many of its findings have been verified and confirmed by the judgments of international, domestic, and foreign courts.
The fact that genocide was perpetrated in Srebrenica in 1995 has been confirmed by two international courts. These facts will not change, no matter the effort put forth to rewrite history. To be clear, no one is demonizing the RS or speaking of collective responsibility for the RS or Serbs, as the RS President and others have claimed. There are victims on all sides and these include Serbs.
Upon its adoption, the Report represented an important step forward in the effort to deliver justice. These efforts continue today.
The OSCE Mission to BiH has repeatedly highlighted that prosecutors’ offices and courts at the Federation, RS, and Brčko District level, as well as the Prosecutor’s Office and Court of BiH, have now completed almost 500 such cases.
The judicial institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina have demonstrated a strong commitment to establishing the truth and ensuring that all war crimes are effectively investigated and prosecuted, regardless of the ethnicity of the perpetrator or the victim. We call for the continued support of these institutions at all levels of processing war crimes cases, to enable them to complete this process, thus ensuring justice for the victims, it is said in the joint statement.
(FENA) S. R.
