Refik Hodzic

As a jus­tice ac­tivist from Bosnia, I see the con­di­tions for geno­cide in Gaza.

No, the UN’s hands were not tied due to ‘lo­gis­ti­cal is­sues’ or de­ci­sions by the Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil.

The moral and le­gal ba­sis for con­tin­u­a­tion of de­liv­ery of aid to Idlib with­out the UNSC’s ap­proval is strong and clear.

The COVID-19 pan­dem­ic made an al­ready dire sit­u­a­tion worse for more than 1.5 mil­lion Syr­i­an refugees in Lebanon.

The pre­ma­ture repa­tri­a­tion of dis­placed Syr­i­ans could cause fur­ther cy­cles of vi­o­lence and suf­fer­ing.

The de­hu­man­i­sa­tion cam­paign Syr­i­ans are fac­ing is strik­ing­ly sim­i­lar to the one that led to the geno­cide of Bosni­ans.

Un­less Mladic’s lega­cy is ad­dressed in the rest of Bosnia, the out­come of his tri­al in The Hague may be mere­ly sym­bol­ic.