If this year's U.N. General Assembly does nothing else, it should adopt a resolution declaring the mass killings and deportations of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995 to be a genocide.
before recently stepping down from these positions. The vast majority of the thousands gathered there were Bosniak survivors of the genocide and relatives of the murder victims. Looking into their eyes, especially into the eyes of the women who call themselves the, I was reminded of the early Holocaust commemorations attended primarily by survivors and their families. The faces were the same, the anguish and tears were the same.
But it is the international community and international civil society, in particular the governments and international institutions that allowed the Srebrenica genocide to occur, that must be forced—shamed if you will—into commemorating the Srebrenica genocide, if only as an act of atonement.for the Holocaust and the 1994 Rwandan genocide as well as the victims of slavery , torture , terrorism , acts of violence based on religion or belief , and genocides generally .
I am confident—or at least hopeful—that a majority of the family of nations will be prepared to make such a symbolic gesture of penance to the Bosniaks whom the U.N. failed so grievously at Srebrenica.rejecting and condemning"without any reservation any denial of the Holocaust as a historical event, either in full or in part," and urging all member states to reject, again without any reservation, any such Holocaust denial.
Those of us whose families endured the horrors of genocide have an inherent, intuitive bond with others who suffered a similar fate. As a Jew and as the son of two Holocaust survivors, I have the moral obligation to see to it that the Muslim victims of the Srebrenica genocide receive the same respect from the international community and are commemorated with the same reverence as the Jews, including my grandparents and my brother, who perished in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Menachem Z. Rosensaft is an adjunct professor of law, Cornell Law School. This past July, he was awarded an honorary PhD by the University of Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovinacontribution to raising awareness of the genocide against Bosnians in Srebrenica and the Holocaust, through the fight against the denial of crimes and the falsification of historical facts, and for contributing to peace building and the development of a culture of remembrance.
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