United Nations Criticized Over Failure to Prevent Bosnian Genocide

A commentary alleges that the United Nations and Western powers enabled the Bosnian genocide, asserting that the UN failed to protect civilians in the Srebrenica enclave and the wider Drina region. The author cites the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights as a broken promise, arguing that the genocide extended beyond Srebrenica to Foča, Višegrad, Zvornik and other towns. The piece claims that UN peacekeepers were supposed to safeguard Srebrenica but arrived too late, making the organization complicit in the atrocities.

The article also references the historical context of the UN's founding after World War II and criticizes contemporary Western inaction, suggesting that the lack of decisive intervention allowed the mass killings to occur.