Was Srebrenica a Genocide or a War attrocity?

[Mortimer]

In Serbia it is still mainstream to say it was not a genocide, some do say it was a genocide, but the mainstream opinion is it was a attrocity, war attrocity but not a genocide. I shared this same opinion when I was 20, purely because I was convinced it was not a genocide, because it was sort of revenge attack, and they removed females and kids, they killed only adult men, or teenager to adult men. They didnt planned and organised to exterminate all bosniaks, they wanted to punish them and thats why they executed 8000. Thats why I was convinced it was a war attrocity not a genocide, but Den Haag ruled it was a genocide and new tensions came around, as the EU official in bosnia declared serbs a genocidal people, and passed a law that it is forbidden to say srebrenica was not a genocide, now the serb officials protested there.

Opinions?

[Mortimer]

Bump

[Tooting Carmen]

A war atrocity portrayed in the West as a genocide. (Muslim militias had been killing Serbs for several months in the area prior).

[Jana]

(Muslim militias had been killing Serbs for several months in the area prior).

Ridiculous Serb propaganda considering Serbs carried out around 90% of war crimes in Bosnian War.
Slaughter of Bosniak civilians started already in 1992 so don't try to sell us Čhetnik story about muslim militia which of course killed some Serbs, but it was Serbs themselves that started the slaughter while Bosniaks had no weapons to defend themselves.

Not a genocide though as they didn't kill women and children in mass, just a single worst war crime on European soil after WW2.

[Jana]

According to Human Rights Watch, the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party "launched an aggressive campaign to prove that Muslims had committed crimes against thousands of Serbs in the area" which "was intended to diminish the significance of the July 1995 crime.

The efforts to explain the Srebrenica massacre as motivated by revenge have been dismissed as bad faith attempts to justify the genocide

The UN Secretary-General's report on the fall of Srebrenica said: "Even though this accusation is often repeated by international sources, there is no credible evidence to support it... The Serbs repeatedly exaggerated the extent of the raids out of Srebrenica as a pretext for the prosecution of a central war aim: to create a geographically contiguous and ethnically pure territory along the Drina."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebre...und_Srebrenica

[Varda]

A war atrocity portrayed in the West as a genocide. (Muslim militias had been killing Serbs for several months in the area prior).

Not only several months but 3 years. In Srebrenica and around died more Serbian than Muslim civilians in period 1992-95 https://youtu.be/grqpznt4AlA

[Mortimer]

Ridiculous Serb propaganda considering Serbs carried out around 90% of war crimes in Bosnian War.
Slaughter of Bosniak civilians started already in 1992 so don't try to sell us Čhetnik story about muslim militia which of course killed some Serbs, but it was Serbs themselves that started the slaughter while Bosniaks had no weapons to defend themselves.

Not a genocide though as they didn't kill women and children in mass, just a single worst war crime on European soil after WW2.

I'm against radical serb chetniks but you don't need to be one to state that they killed Serbs around srebrenica I feel like you hate Serbs too much and it doesn't make any sense to me as you are 30 % serb yourself and dated half Serbs before stears

[Blondie]

It's genocide in the hungarian history books.

[Varda]

It's genocide in the hungarian history books.

Proclamation of genocide in Srebrenica by western propaganda is an insult for Armenians, Jews and Serbs and who were victims of real genocide (Armenians in WW1, Jews and Serbs in WW2).

[Jana]

I'm against radical serb chetniks but you don't need to be one to state that they killed Serbs around srebrenica I feel like you hate Serbs too much and it doesn't make any sense to me as you are 30 % serb yourself and dated half Serbs before stears

I am 6% Serb and stated facts.