The failure of nations and intellectuals to agree on the definition of genocide has resulted in massacres that defy all norms of civilised behaviour. Israel’s war on unarmed Palestinians is the latest example.
American linguist Noam Chomsky said the mass slaughter in Srebrenica was a horror story and major crime, but calling it 'genocide' cheapens the word. Photo: AP
Yet amid all this chaos, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution for another genocide titled the “International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica.” It came as a shock to many people at the time to discover what had happened to millions of Jews in Europe under Nazi occupation during World War II.
Holocaust was used interchangeably with genocide, but the reverse was not the case. No other genocide was named the Holocaust afterwards. With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, another “new world order” was about to be established as the US claimed victory. However, horror stories have been heard across the world ever since. The more things changed, the more they stayed the same.The war in Bosnia, the siege of Sarajevo, and the mass killings of 8,372 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica became symbols of ethnic cleansing in the 1990s., were mobilising support to break the occupation of the Serbs.
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