BAC letter to University of British Columbia regarding genocide denier Srdja Trifkovic

Institute for the Research of Genocide Canada
Published: February 21, 2011  

BAC letter to University of British Columbia regarding genocide denier Srdja Trifkovic
Bosnischer Akademischer Kreis e.V
[email protected]

München, 21.02.2022

Office of the President
Prof. Stephen J. Toope, PhD
The University of British Columbia
6328 Memorial Road
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2

Dear Professor Toope,

On behalf of the Bosnian Academic Circle (BAC) I would like to express our dismay at the news that a well known genocide denier Srdja Trifkovic is scheduled to speak at an event organized by the Serbian Students Association at your prestigious academic institution.

BAC hopes that this decision was made by the lack of awareness about Mr. Trifkovic’s background and previous works, many of which contain repeated and open denials of the Srebrenica Genocide, an event that was, case after case, reaffirmed, by the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, as an act of genocide according to the United Nations charter.

It would be an insult to all those who truly value human life, to provide an academic platform to someone who is an open apologist of politics of hatred and propagates further genocide denial regarding the events that occurred during the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina.

We owe it to the victims of genocide everywhere, not just in Bosnia, to honor them by performing our duties as human beings to disengage from those so called scholars who wish to poison us with conspiracy theories and hateful propaganda.

Therefore, we strongly urge you to act responsibly and disallow Mr. Trifkovic from holding a lecture at your university, an institution well known internationally for academic excellence and learning.

Bosnian Academic Circle

Amer Sabitović