Drecun: Pristina, Sarajevo campaigning to portray Serbs as criminals

BELGRADE - Serbian MP Milovan Drecun said on Wednesday a draft Srebrenica resolution in the UN General Assembly was aimed at portraying the Serbs as a nation of criminals and that Pristina and Sarajevo were in a synchronised campaign to achieve that goal.

Speaking to the RTS, Drecun said leading genocide experts said there had been no genocide in Srebrenica as, by definition, genocide implied an intent to destroy an entire nation or ethnic group.

"That did not happen," he said.

"More than 20,000 women, children and elderly people wanted to cross from Srebrenica into a territory controlled by Bosniak forces, and there are lists of people who were enabled to cross into that territory," Drecun said.

"If adopted, that resolution will by no means lead to reconciliation, and disrespect and unequal treatment of all victims leaves a deep mark among, and unsettles, the people whose victims are disrespected," Drecun said.

Commenting on Pristina's decision to bring purported rape victims to Monday's UN Security Council session, Drecun said the move had been a "trap set up for Serbia".

"There are synchronised campaigns by Albin Kurti's regime and Sarajevo that are a propaganda of genocide in Srebrenica and in Kosovo. Pristina wants to portray Serbia as a criminal state, with the ultimate idea of getting some payment for that," said Drecun, who is a member of the parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija.

He said the so-called "Kosovo Liberation Army" had raped Serb women, as well as Romani, Bosniak and ethnic Albanian women, but that Pristina's representative Vjosa Osmani had said nothing about that at the session.

"The biggest problem is that many of them were killed afterwards," he noted.

Drecun said the move was not only the responsibility of Osmani but also the countries that had made it possible.