Arrr mateys, the Bosnian Serb scallywag be talkin' of leavin' Bosnia afore the UN vote on genocide! Blimey!
2024-05-22
Arrr mateys, word be spreadin' of a U.N. scheme to honor them poor souls lost to Bosnian scallywags in '95. The seas be rough with political squabbles over this notion. 'Tis a storm brewin' in the high seas of diplomacy! Aye, 'tis a spectacle to behold!
In the language of a 17th-century pirate, me hearties, the leader of Bosnia's Serb territory be makin' a bold threat to secede from the Balkan country on a fine Wednesday, just a day ahead of a planned U.N. vote on establishin' an annual day to remember the 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs, arrr!The proposed U.N. resolution, sponsored by Germany and Rwanda, has stirred up quite the kerfuffle, with protests and a fierce lobbying campaign against it by the Bosnian Serb president, Milorad Dodik, and the populist president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, shiver me timbers!Those two scallywags claim the resolution would paint all Serbs as genocidal villains, even though the draft doesn't mention 'em by name, aye!Back on July 11, 1995, the Bosnian Serbs pillaged a U.N.-protected safe area in Srebrenica, separatin' at least 8,000 Muslim Bosniak men and boys from their kin and sendin' 'em to Davy Jones' locker, aye!The U.N. General Assembly be havin' a jolly debate on the resolution on Thursday mornin' followed by a vote, with the Serbs havin' the backing of Russia and China, while the Western states be supportin' the resolution, yo ho ho!Dodik, the president of Republika Srpska, be cryin' foul on social media, claimin' the resolution be pushed by supporters of Muslim Bosniaks and will lead to the break-up of the country, arrr!Them Serbs have been threatenin' to secede for a while now, with Dodik and his crew bein' under sanctions for messin' with a U.S. peace plan that ended Bosnia's war, blow me down!The Srebrenica massacres marked the grisly end of the conflict, with the International Court of Justice determinin' it as genocide, joinin' the ranks of history's darkest moments like the Nazi Holocaust, avast ye!Vucic and Dodik be scarin' folks with the possibility of war damages and trials if the resolution passes, mateys, argggh!The draft resolution condemns any denial of the Srebrenica genocide as a historical event, and ain't takin' kindly to glorifyin' war criminals, aye!The government of Serbia still denies the genocide, but many officials celebrate the war criminals as heroes, which be upsettin' the survivors and kin of the victims, aye aye!