MEMORIAL CENTER DIRECTOR IN SREBRENICA MADE OUTRAGEOUS INSULTS AGAINST JEWISH SCHOLAR

SREBRENICA, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ – The Director of the Srebrenica Memorial Center Emir Suljagić insulted Professor Eugene Kontorovich, a Heritage Foundation expert, in response to his comment on the social network X in which he drew attention to what he described as disturbing Holocaust revisionism coming from Sarajevo.

Suljagić referred to Kontorovich using offensive language and vulgar expressions in a public post on the X platform. He accused the Heritage Foundation of fabricating crimes against Serbs and described it as "Serb propaganda". Suljagić also accused Kontorovich of lying, calling it "good news", and said it was an unsuccessful attempt to use the visit of Yehuda Kaploun, adding that Kaploun "showed awareness of the context and refused to let his visit be anything other than paying tribute to victims". Suljagić further said that he is not from Sarajevo, again using insulting language in reference to a spelling mistake Kontorovich made regarding the city's name in his post. "I am from Srebrenica. You should know about it. Also, because you're a moron, you did not even bother to do basic fact-checking: accusing me of Holocaust denial flies in the face of the facts to the extent that you can freely be said to be completely delusional," Suljagić stated. In another post on X, Suljagić wrote that "half of the Heritage Foundation is paid by Ustasha supporters and the other half by Chetniks". "Now that we know you are for sale, how much for the Bosniak cause?" he asked, adding that he would organize a fundraising effort outside mosques for Kontorovich. Kontorovich had commented on Suljagić's post in which he stated that "as citizens of BiH and members of society who condemn crimes committed by the Ustasha and the NDH regime, they thank US presidential envoy Yehuda Kaploun for his visit to Donja Gradina," and added that Kaplun's speech "strongly linked the denial of crimes in Jasenovac and Donja Gradina with the denial of crimes committed in BiH during the 1990s". Suljagić wrote that the most important thing Kaplun did was something no one had previously dared: condemning the use of the horrific legacy of World War II and the cynical use of past crimes - both real and alleged - to justify modern-day crimes, which he said was a pattern seen in the 1990s and today. Kontorovich responded that Suljagić's post represented shocking revisionism from Sarajevo and dangerous language about "real and alleged" crimes in BiH during World War II. "Even worse this, soft Holocaust denial comes on the day Serbs, Jews and Roma gathered to honor the memorial of the largest concentration camp in BiH," Kontorovich stressed.