The International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Genocide and the Prevention of this Crime is celebrated today, with the aim of raising awareness of the Convention on Genocide, prevention, and honoring the victims.
- The term genocide itself, as is known, was coined by the Jew and legal expert Lemkin. Today we have the experience - worldwide, legally and in every other possible way - that we can try to prevent a crime that until then was known in concrete cases, but unknown in terminological ones - Hikmet Karčić, research associate at the Institute, told Preporod.info for researching crimes against humanity and international law at the University of Sarajevo
He emphasized that even 74 years after the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted, we have similar situations today in Europe.
- Today we have that situation in Ukraine, 30 years ago we had it in our country. What is certain is that even after 74 years, we have a large number of examples around the world where the genocidal legacy continues. In the future, we must work on establishing a form of genocide prevention - emphasized Karčić.
On December 9, 1948, the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted, and in 2015, a decision was made to commemorate it, i.e. the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Genocide and the Prevention of this Crime was established.
Source: Preporod.info