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Appeal to the defenders of the truth about

genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina

17 March 2011.

By M.Sci. Marjan Hajnal

Philosopher, author, humanistpre-war resident of SarajevoIsrael

(Mr. Marjan Hajnal is a member of the Institute for the Research of Genocide, Canada)

I have been following with great dismay the intensification of attacks on the Institute for Research of

Genocide of Canada {IRGC} and the Congress of North American Bosniaks {CNAB} through variouschannels including the internet and telephone threats towards members of these two organizations.

Along with diplomatic pressure aimed at redrawing the borders of internationally recognized Republicof Bosnia and Herzegovina, a multiethnic democratic state of equal constituent ethnic groups and other

minorities, a synchronized and organized attack campaign is being carried out by a fascist and neo-Nazi

lobby that operate in the territory of Canada and the United States. The aim of these retrograde post-war forces is to jeopardize the existence of both IRGC and CNAB, through various media smear

campaigns and even directly threatening their leadership and members. The attacks were particularly

intensified after the government of Canadas decision to forbid entry to genocide denier Srdja Trifkovicwho was scheduled to give a lecture to students of Serbian nationality in Vancouver at the University of

British Columbia. It is regrettable that these young people consciously or unconsciously follow a policythat initially indoctrinated their grandparents, parents, and now their own generation, guiding them to adismissive attitude toward the genocide committed against Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Muslims,

and all other ethnic groups who consider Bosnia and Herzegovina an irreplaceable and indivisible

motherland, with its unique history, cultural tradition, languages, and its sovereign place on the

geopolitical map of Europe and the world.

Only the enemies of humanity and civilization can deny that Bosnia was on many different occasions

exposed to genocidal conquest and devastation. On all these occasions the enemies attacked theterritorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its sovereign people. Bosnian rich history is full of

examples of how its brave people, regardless of religious orientation, bravely resisted all invaders, and

that the never did any attempt of assimilation have permanent success.

General symbol and character of all these conquests is genocide.

According to the definition of genocide registered in 1948 at the Convention on the Prevention andPunishment of the Crime of Genocide, this uncivilized act means any deliberate, systematic violent

action aimed at destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, religious, or national group, with the

intention to kill, persecute, dislocate, or steal their movable and immovable property. This definitionincludes the terror and deprivation of liberty, torture of prisoners, torture and abuse of the weak and

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defenseless people.

The war against Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period 1992 1995, and particularly against the

Bosnian Muslims, officially known as Bosniaks, was conducted as a classic genocidal war. The city of

Sarajevo was subjected to genocidal blockade, siege, constant artillery and sniper fire from thebreakaway parts of the Yugoslav National Army (JNA) joined by Chetnik (Serb ultranationalist)

paramilitary formations that did not care that the city was also inhabited by a significant number of

Serb people. All citizens of Sarajevo were abandoned hostages, victims of a pathological obsession tokill utilizing all irrational forms of destruction. It was the same case with all other cities such as

Visegrad, Foca, Kljuc, Bihac, Bijeljina, Banja Luka, Prijedor, and Srebrenica. Croatia joined in the

destruction of Bosnia as a hostile party interested in the forced division of the state along ethnic lines,as it aspired for centuries before to detach a part of BiH territory. Independent State of Croatia (NDH),

a puppet Nazi state, proved its genocidal brutality during the Second World War. After the cease-fire

during the epoch of socialism, irredentist ambitions of Herceg-Bosna and Republika Srpska

escalated to the level of the mass pogroms. No reasonable person can deny that their war machinefunctioned as a genocidal system.

It is therefore of paramount importance, for the purpose of defense of truth, morality, justice, positivelaw and the overall achievements of civilization, that IRGC and CNAB are protected, and the United

States and Canada prosecutes to the fullest extent of the law, all perpetrators who violently threaten and

intimidate the members of both organizations. Furthermore, this critical moment is an opportunity tocoordinate efforts with other countries to start forming similar institutes who will sanction all forms of

genocidal actions and to initiate the arrest of the perpetrators, regardless of where they are or who they

are. There are more than 20,000 such individuals who are free to roam and incite genocide.

I welcome the decision of the Government of Canada to allow the establishment and operation of

IRGC, as well as the decision to indiscriminately refuse entrance and residence to all those who

generate, propagate and spread national, religious and racial intolerance and hatred.

As people devoted to studying the phenomenon of humanity and the sources and causes of inhumanity,

I invite all humane people to join the defense of the truth about Bosnia. In the name of all the victims ofwar in the world, it is the duty of every individual to choose only the voice of their conscience. In

particular, I call deluded members of religious communities, political and national associations, to

resist manipulation, warmongering aspirations and to abandon allegiances to the sick self-proclaimednational leaders. These are not true leaders, but charismatic destructionists who, during their personal

megalomaniac regressions, are guiding the entire society to the brink of collapse. It is necessary to

identify them everywhere as opponents of humanity and the enemies of their people, and all others

nations. The courts of history will sooner or later reveal them as the pillars of shame and join them tothose who have already been identified as members of the legion of terror and violent death of innocent

people. Genocide must be actively confronted.