Zuroff hopes Srebrenica resolution will fail, says UNGA "worst place" to vote on it

BELGRADE/JERUSALEM - Simon Wiesenthal Centre Director Efraim Zuroff said on Tuesday he hoped a UN Srebrenica genocide resolution would fail and noted that the UN General Assembly was the "worst place" to vote on the matter because it was a "political vote."

In an interview with Tanjug, Zuroff noted that passing such a resolution would be bad for the Balkans and that no genocide had taken place in Srebrenica.

"The definition of genocide is to wipe out a nation, a country or a specific national group - how could Srebrenica be declared genocide if the Serb troops allowed 25,000-33,000 people who were in Srebrenica to go home, not in any way harmed?"

"If they had wanted to carry out a genocide, they would kill all the 33,000 people, but that is not what happened," he said.

"Not every war crime is genocide," said Zuroff, a renowned Holocaust expert and Nazi...