Handke’s Yugoslav passport is important because of an ongoing international controversy over the Nobel organization giving what is considered the world’s most important literary prize to a writer accused of being a genocide apologist.
And we join other colleagues in welcoming the unanimous adoption of the resolution for a further 12 months, authorising the European Union to continue Operation Althea. This demonstrates the continued commitment of the international community to Bosnia’s security and stability, but as the French representative said, it also underscores Bosnia’s European and Euro-Atlantic direction and trajectory.
A court in Bosnia has sentenced a former Serb fighter to 20 years in prison for a wartime massacre of 57 Bosniak civilians who were locked in a house and burned alive, including two children.
Western Balkans 2019:
European leaders have often confirmed their support to the Western Balkans and its Euro Atlantic road, expressing at the same time concerns about the impact of individual states in the region, particularly Russia, China and Turkey.
“The pace of prosecutions is too slow, the conviction rate is too low and what the prosecutor’s office had promised to do in terms of transferring some of those cases to the entity-level and Brcko District courts, has not been done in accordance with the agreement that they made,” he said.
La riconciliazione è basata su tre cose fondamentali: verità, giustizia e confessione. Perché le vittime del genocidio possano perdonare i responsabili del genocidio, essi devono venire e dire: ho fatto un errore, mi dispiace, chiedo perdono e mi impegno a non ripeterlo mai più in futuro. In Bosnia Erzegovina, riguardo al genocidio in Srebrenica, non c’è stata “guarigione”.