March 14, 2023
Bundeskanzleramt
Bundeskanzler
Olaf Scholz
Willy-Brandt-Straße 1
10557 Berlin
Dear Hon. Chancellor,
We are addressing you because we are concerned about the historical amnesia in Europe and the terrible consequences it can have for the continent.
Mr. Manuel Sarrazin, the special representative for the countries of the Western Balkans in your government, stated in an interview for the bosnian N1 channel that Mr. Christian Schmidt has the full support of the German government.
Mr. Sarrazin expressed the full support for the actions of Mr.Schmidt, although, in the same interview Mr.Sarrazin clearly said that Mr.Schmidt could not have behaved in the same way in Germany as he did in Bosnia.
Mr Sarrazin referred to the scandalous retroactive changes to the Election Law on the very night of the elections by Mr.Christian Schmidt.
How can Mr.Schmidt get support from the German government for the decisions he could not implement in Germany?
This statement by Mr. Sarrazin exposed the current policy of the German government. The discriminatory policy of applying different sets of laws and rules to different peoples.
This brings back the horrible echoes of the past, namely the Nuremberg laws. It also brings the fears of a genocide reoccuring in Europe.
The prelude to the Holocaust was historical amnesia and genocide denial.
Today in Austria, its leading University is itself involved in the denial of the Genocide in Srebrenica. The University of Vienna would not distance itself from its
faculty members who are publically denying genocide.
This behavior by the university of Vienna shows the same worrying pattern of different rules and laws being applied to different peoples as Mr. Sarrazin himself publicly exposed in the mentioned interview. This behavior is already materializing in Germany itself in a racist and islamophobic attack on a german civil organization Pangea Netzwerk by Josip Juratovic a member of the German Bundestag who labeled Pangea Netzwerk as Bosniak organization, he relativized genocide and blamed victims of genocide of misusing their victimhood.
We are very worried about the future of Europe.
Genocide is being rewarded in Bosnia and Hercegovina. Mr. Schmidt as High Representative did not use any of his “Bonn Powers” to punish genocide denial prevalent in Bosnia and Hercegovina and now he himself has became a genocide denier. Mr. Christian Schmidt labeled the Genocide in Srebrenica as a “genocide-like situation”.
We have to remember that the genocide denial is the final stage of genocide.
Continued support for Mr.Schmidt would mean support for the genocide denial and it would translate in the german government’s direct involvement in the final stage of the Bosnian Genocide.
We are calling upon You and the German government to start treating the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina as equal human beings and to withdraw your support for Mr. Schmidt.
Dr. Emir Ramić
Chairman of the Institute for the research of genocide Canada
