DENIAL OF GENOCIDE – THE CASE OF GENOCIDE AGAINST BOSNIAKS AND GENOCIDE AGAINST THE TUTSI
DENIAL OF GENOCIDE – THE CASE OF GENOCIDE AGAINST BOSNIAKS AND GENOCIDE AGAINST THE TUTSI

Summary/Abstract: Genocides against the Tutsi in Rwanda and Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina were perpetrated almost at the same time and in the same international context in late 1990s. While genocides were being executed in the field, both were notoriously denied at the international level, both by UN bodies and officials of Big Powers. Aftermath genocide, the genocides have been denied on regular and systematic manner by individual denier, organized groups of deniers, certain organizations and governments of particular countries. Often, genocides committed against Tutsi and Bosniaks have been denied by same deniers. Prime interest of deniers of the genocide against Bosniaks, committed from 1992‒1995 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been to diminish evidence of Genocide in Srebrenica in 1995, while in case of genocide against Tutsi that interest has been focused on circumstances which preceded to genocide and death toll of Tutsi. “Spontaneous act”, “retributive crime”, “double genocide” and “conspiracy theory” are just some of denial’s form which are examined in this paper. Finally, the paper attempts to point out the most used techniques of denial and mutual conceptual features of denial of the two cases of genocide. Presence of systematic manner and wide spread of the denial, for both genocides, proves that genocides ideology is still alive and has warned about possibility for a reoccurrence of the genocide.

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