Genocide

Historians must speak out about the July 1995 Srebrenica genocide, while the Serbian public has to stop denying it, a debate in Belgrade was told.

President Tomislav Nikolic on Wednesday laid a wreath at the memorial to World War II genocide victims.

The ceremony, that included military and state honors, took place within the complex of the former concentration camp at the Old Fair Grounds in Belgrade.

The recent rulings from France's Constitutional Council about Holocaust denial and the Armenian incidents of 1915 are important from a couple of angles. 

Two lawsuits were filed against Greek Education Minister Nikos Filis on Monday by the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s office. These were filed in connection with controversial comments he made negating the occurence of the 1914-23 genocide of Black Sea Pontic Greeks.

A Russian opposition leader, Sergei Mironov, said on Nov. 25 that his party had submitted a bill to the Russian parliament on holding to account anyone who denies that the 1915 killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire "was genocide." 

Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) Education Minister Nikos Filis is under fire for his comments during an interview on Monday refuting the Pontic Genocide followed by conservative New Democracy deputy Miltiadis Varvitsiotis’ revelations that high school students are no longer being taught about this dark chapter in recent history.

Kosovo’s War Crime Institute published four new books on the 1998-99 which the government said will be important documents when it begins its attempt to sue Serbia for genocide.

Welcoming a ruling by the top European court of human rights, which said Switzerland had violated a Turkish politician?s right to freedom of speech by convicting him for denying the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 amounted to genocide, Turkey has called the ruling ?an important turning point, as it provides a reply to the exploitation of history and law for political motives.?

The Kosovo assembly has not accepted a proposal to consider a draft resolution on alleged genocide by Yugoslav army and police forces against ethnic Albanians.

45 deputies on Monday voted in favor of including the draft in the agenda, 55 were against, while five abstained.

The tragic crime in Srebrenica should not be minimized, but what happened there was not genocide, says Efraim Zuroff.

The director of the Simon Wiesenthal's Israel Office, who was this week visiting Serbia, spoke for B92 TV on Wednesday to say that the mass murder in Srebrenica was characterized as genocide for political reasons.