The international conference “Srebrenica – The Conscience of the World”, organized by the Party of Democratic Action Macedonia (SDA), will take place tomorrow, May 17, at the Holiday Inn hotel in Skopje, starting at 12:00 PM.
The Srebrenica genocide was the systematic killing of more than 8,300 Bosniak men and boys by Bosnian Serb armed forces in July 1995, during the Bosnian War. The world remembers it as the worst atrocity committed on European soil since World War II. It has been legally classified as genocide by international institutions.
In May 2024, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution—sponsored by Germany and Rwanda—officially declaring July 11 as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica.
The Skopje conference will be opened by Dželal Hodžić, President of SDA Macedonia, and Alija Tabaković, Deputy President of the Main Board of SDA Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Over the course of four panel discussions, speakers will include Ljubčo Georgievski (VMRO-NP), Enes Ibrahim (Party for the Movement of Turks), Ivon Veličkovski (New Republic), former MPs Sanela Škrijelj and Nikica Korubin, journalist and disinformation researcher from CIVIL, Dehran Muratov, CIVIL President Xhabir Deralla, Bulgarian geopolitical analyst Vladimir Vladimirov, and MPs from SDA Sandžak in the Serbian Parliament, among others.
A dedicated panel will feature video addresses by Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Member of the European Parliament (Bulgaria); human rights experts Heather Roberson Gaston (USA) and Kirsten Schönefeld (Germany), who is also the Director of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation for Serbia and Montenegro.
The agenda of the conference covers a wide range of topics, with a special focus on genocide denial as a key characteristic of Greater Serbian propaganda, and the role of Russia in supporting and amplifying that propaganda throughout the Western Balkans.
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