UN Sets July 11 Bosnian Genocide Day, Fadli Zon Asks Gaza's Genocide Warning

BKSAP DPR RI, Fadli Zon (Doc. Ist)

JAKARTA - The United Nations (UNGA) General Assembly has just set the 1995 Genocide International Reflection and Commemoration Day in Srebrenica, Bosnia, which will be celebrated annually on July 11, starting from July this year.

There are 84 countries supporting this resolution including Indonesia, 19 countries opposed and 68 abstain countries. In response to this, the Chairman of the Indonesian House of Representatives' Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Agency (BKSAP), Fadli Zon, welcomed and asked for the same thing to be applied to other genocide tragedies, including those currently still ongoing in the Palestinian Gaza Strip.

"Of course, the adoption of the resolution of the UN General Assembly is very positive so that a similar genocide tragedy will not happen again. In addition, I see that the latest resolution of the UN General Assembly can also be used as a momentum to support Palestine. With the death toll in Srebrenica at around 8,372 commemorated as a genocide tragedy, what is currently happening in the Gaza Strip with more than 35,000 victims should be even more evident as genocide in the 21st century," Fadli said in a written broadcast received by VOI, Friday, May 24.

Fadli emphasized that the level of genocide in Gaza is now beyond humanitarian reason.

Although the International Court asked Israel to ensure that it did not commit genocide, the facts on the ground suggest otherwise. The majority of those who died and were killed in the Gaza Strip were women and children. Israel scorched Gaza so that nearly two million Gazans became refugees. Worse, Israel prevented and even attacked humanitarian aid. Most recently, Gazans' mass graves began to be revealed, "a legislator member of the Foreign Commission.

Furthermore, the former Deputy Speaker of the DPR for the 2014-2019 period ensured that he in the DPR would garner support for the UN to set a resolution to commemorate the genocide tragedy in the Gaza Strip.

Indonesia can propose this. We in the DPR will fully support including our diplomacy in various parliamentary forums such as the Inter Parliamentary Union or the World Parliamentary Forum. We want in the future to be able to commemorate the terrible tragedy in the Gaza Strip. Maybe the title of the resolution of the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 2023-2024 Genocide in the Gaza Strip," he concluded.