Srebrenica Resolution

Novi Sad, Feb. 05, 2010, (Serbia Today) – While the declaration with which parliament would condemn the Srebrenica crimes is supported by 20.6 percent of Serbia’s citizens, 46.2 percent would support the adoption of one all-inclusive resolution, according to an article in Novi Sad daily Dnevnik. According to a survey conducted by the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, as many as 55.2 percent of those polled believe that the crime committed in Srebrenica was “maliciously blown out of proportions by our enemies and media”. Social Democratic Union (SDU) President Žarko Korać, who was the initiator of the version of Srebrenica resolution that was not accepted by either the government or opposition, said that the fact that President Boris Tadić proposed the resolution this time around is important. Korać said that there is no use in voting for such a resolution if the people think that it is imposed, if there is no sincerity and it is being done just because someone is asking for it. “There can be a purpose only in the desire for Serbia to be relieved of the burden, because there is a video that was shown on television in Serbia with Ratko Mladić saying: ‘I have finally freed this city of Turks, and I’m handing it over to the Serb people’,” Korać said. Korać added that “no one asked the Serb people about that, nor did the Serb people give Mladić the authority to do that in their name”. “And that is why the Serb people should show that they do not want to accept this responsibility, which belongs to the criminals that planned and carried out the crime,” he said. Korać also stated that this was the time for the political elite in both the ruling coalition and opposition to show maturity and do what was needed for Serbia in the long-term, and that would help relieve it from the burden of the horrible tragedy.