IGC Letter Regarding Vuk Jeremic Agenda in UN
IGK pismo u vezi agende Vuka Jeremića u UN
March 14, 2013
H. E. Stephen Harper
Prime Minister of Canada
H. E. John Baird
Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs
H. E. Roméo A. Dallaire
Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide
and Other Crimes Against Humanity (Canada)
H. E. Guillermo E. Rishchynski
Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
H. E. Tom Mulcair
Leader of the Official Opposition and Leader of Canada's New Democrats
H. E. Bob Ray
President of the Liberal Party, Canada
H. E. Brian Masse
Member of the Canadian Parliament and member of the Parliamentary Friendship
Group Canada - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Distinguished Prime minister,
Distinguished Excellencies,
Allow us to address You on behalf of the survivors, victims and witnesses of the
aggression on Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its citizens and to request
that on April 10th of this year at the UN General Assembly , where public
discussion titled “Role of the International Criminal tribunal in accomplishment
of justice and lasting peace between nations”, Canada uses its influence as one
of the most respected members of the UN and not to allow representatives of the
member nations whose citizens were convicted of war crimes by international
courts and whose governments still refuse to acknowledge conviction for genocide
in Bosnia and Herzegovina which has been delivered by a number of international
legal bodies, to actively participate in this event.
We firmly believe that it is not prudent to have Vuk Jeremic, president of the
UN General Assembly, participate in this event since he is a citizen of Serbia
who in a very aggressive way promotes nationalistic interests of Serbia, country
that still denies genocide committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We are confident that even on April 10th of this year his presentation at the UN
General Assembly seating will be geared toward “equating guilt” and critique of
the International Court for War Crimes for former Yugoslavia.
We would like to remind you that Vuk Jeremic was personally responsible for
scandalous play of Serbian nationalistic song “Mars na Drinu” which is a symbol
of the extreme Serb nationalism, song which was used by fascist and nazy
collaborators lead by Draza Mihajlovic as a motivator to commit crimes in Bosnia
and Herzegovina during the Second World War. The same song during the most
recent aggression and genocide committed against citizens of Bosnia and
Herzegovina Serb aggressors were listening to while they were raping, destroying
and expelling and mercilessly killing Bosniak civilians in the cities and
concentration camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995. This song was
prohibited by the previous Government because it was inciting ethnic hatred, and
even Serbian Government refused to use this song as a national anthem because of
its provoking text and its history.
Institute for Research of Genocide is grateful to His Excellence Ban Ki Moon,
Secretary General of the UN, for the fact that he publicly apologized on January
17th, 2013 expressing regret for pain that this incident caused to the victims
and witnesses of the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina and genocide against
its citizens. Secretary General has admitted that this song should not have
been a part of the official program and that he was not aware of its historic
context.
Such behaviour of Vuk Jeremic is unacceptable and therefore we humbly appeal to
you to prevent Vuk Jeremic from executing diplomatic lie at the UN General
Assembly event to be held on April 10th, 2013. This would be a great Canadian
contribution to the truth and justice in the world.
Please do not stay silent as a democratic country which has accepted us as its
citizens after our traumatic ordeal caused by the aggression against our
country, crime against humanity, war crimes and genocide in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, we survivors and direct witnesses of the above crimes ask for your
help to have our voices as Canadian citizens heard. If we remain silent we will
be accomplices of the above mentioned crimes.
History has
thought us that all major projects start falling apart not with major but rather
small errors which can bring suspicion and disgust against projects and
institutions – such as the UN as a global guarantor of peace, and we wish to
remind you that with your efforts to have diplomatic sanctions imposed against
Vuk Jeremic, president of the UN General Assembly, and barring his attendance at
the public hearing to be held on April 10th of this year, you will demonstrate
dedication to protection of integrity of the UN and to send a clear message to
those who would dare damage the integrity of the UN in the future that such
destructive acting would not be tolerated; that is does not pay to endure on the
symbols of crime and spite against the international community where Canada has
a very important role.
Institute for
Research of Genocide, Canada believes in open debate and free speech for all
people, and is not trying to remove anyone's ability to do so in this matter.
But the clear track record of open denial and obfuscation of the indisputable
facts regarding the acts of genocide in Bosnia by nationalist forces of the
Bosnian Serbs and their enablers in Serbia, makes providing a grand
international forum to spread lies and disinformation about the genocide by
their modern agents of historical distortion something that IGC cannot and will
not support.
At the same time we invite all representatives of Bosniak and Bosnian and
Herzegovina associations and individuals from all around the world to write a
letter of similar content to their politicians and government representatives in
order to prevent a diplomatic fraud which is in works for April 10th of this
year at the UN General Assembly event perpetrated by Vuk Jeremic and in fact
state of Serbia where he is coming from and to the detriment of the idea of
humanity and peace, basics on which the Organization of UN is based upon.
Thank you for your attention regarding this urgent matter.
Sincerely yours,
Signatories:
Professor Emir Ramic
Director of the Institute for Research of Genocide, Canada, President of the
Congress of North American Bosniak, Canadian Branch
Professor dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling
Former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Professor dr. Francis Anthony Boyle
University of Illinois, College of Law, General Agent for the Republic of
Bosnia and Herzegovina before the International Court of Justice with
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Powers
Professor dr. David Pettigrew
Southern Connecticut State University, Steering Committee Member, Yale
Genocide Studies Program
Professor dr. Marko Attila Hoare
University Kingston, London, England
Professor dr. Gregory H. Stanton
President, Genocide Watch, Research Professor in Genocide Studies and
Prevention, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason
University, Arlington, VA, USA
Professor dr. Keith Doubt
Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, USA, Editor Spirit of Bosnia
Professor dr. Carole Hodge
Post Genocide Education Foundation
Professor dr. Erhard Busek
Coordinator of the South-Eastern Cooperative Initiative and Chairman of the
Institute for Danube Region
Professor dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs
The University of Alabama
Professor dr.Anatoly Isaenko
Appalachian State University, Boone
Roger M. Richards
Filmmaker-Photographer-Author
Rebecca Tinsley
Lower, London, United Kingdom
Chris Mathieu
Editor,
Bosnia twenty years later and I love Bosnia
Matteo Bastianelli
Photographer and filmmaker
Igor Gontcharov
Univerzitety, Toronto, Canada
Academician, Professor dr. Smail Čekić
Univerzity, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Direcor of the Institute for
Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law of the Sarajevo
University
Academician, Professor dr. Vladimir Premec
Academy of Sciences and Arts of BiH, Faculty of Philosophy, University of
Sarajevo, BiH
Academician Professor. dr. Esad Duraković
Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Professor dr. Senadin Lavić
Univerzity Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, President of Bosniak Community
Culture Preporod
Professor dr. Kasim Trnka,
Professor of constitutional law
University of Sarajevo
Professor dr. Dzemal Najetovic
Unversity of Sarajevo
Academician, Professor dr. Mustafa Ceric
President of the World Bosniak Congress
Academician, Professor dr. Mehmed A. Aksamija
Academician, Professor. dr. Ferid Muhić
President of Bosnian Academy of Arts and Sciences
Professor dr.. Admir Muratovic
Director of the Research Institute of crimes and genocide, University of
Novi Pazar, Sandzak, Srbia
Professor dr. Mevlud Dudic
Rector of the International University of Novi Pazar, Srbia
Professor dr. Janja Beć-Neumann,
Univerzity Vienna, Austria, The founder of the first course Heard of war
crimes and genocide, the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated 2005
Professor dr. Muris Osmanagić
University, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, In the name of the Appeal of
the name of the most prominent 220 university professors and public figures
Professor dr. Nijaz Ibrulj
University, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Professor dr.Goran Bandov
Univerzity Zagreb, Croatia
Professor dr. Sead Berberovic
Univerzity Zagreb, Croatia
Professor dr. Elvir Musić
Univerzity Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Professor dr. Admir Mulaosmanović
Institute for History, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Professor dr. Fahrudin Novalić
Univerzity Zagreb, Croatia
Professor dr. Šemso Tanković
Univerzity Zagreb, Croatia
Amir Ahmic
Bosniak liaison officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for areas of
the former Yugoslavia
Master Fatmir Alispahic
Author, writter
Prof. dr. Hariz Halilović
Univerzity Victoria, Australia, Researcher of the Crime of Genocide
Master Marjan Hajnel
Author, writter, Israel
Nadira Avdic Vllasi
Author
Šaćir Srebrenica
President of the Association of the Concentration-camp Detainees in Bosnia
and Herzegovina
Cc: H.E. Ambassador Mirsada Colakovic
Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations
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