DISINFO: Srebrenica massacre [1995] was a provocation staged by Western security services

DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS

  • Outlet: RIA ( archive #1, archive #2, original )
  • Date of publication: April 06, 2022
  • Article language(s): Russian
  • Countries / regions discussed: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

DISINFO: Srebrenica massacre [1995] was a provocation staged by Western security services

SUMMARY

Srebrenica has become a symbol of the genocide of the Muslim popuation which, according to the West, was perpetrated by Bosnian Serbs in July 1995. With time, however, there emerged many facts confirming that the Srebrenica events were actually part of a well planned and executed operation by Western security services.

RESPONSE

The claim advances a recurring pro-Kremlin narrative minimising or outright denying the genocidal character of the Srebrenica massacre, as recognised by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

The report does not cite a single "fact" which would confirm Western complicity in the violence against Bosniak Muslims. Moreover, it contradicts earlier statements by pro-Kremlin outlets which unambiguously presented the Srebrenica events as genocide, in order to justify Russia's own aggression against other states. See e.g. here and here for related debunks.

See here for further debunking by The Insider (in Russian).

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