Anger in Bosnia after British PM Ennobles ‘War Crimes Denier’

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Anger in Bosnia after British PM Ennobles ‘War Crimes Denier’​

Nedim Dervisbegovic

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August 6, 202010:08

Survivors of the 1992-95 Bosnian war have expressed anger after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson decided to make Claire Fox, who has published articles denying the Srebrenica genocide and other wartime crimes, a member of the House of Lords.

Boris Johnson’s decision to award a life peerage in the House of Lords to Claire Fox, the former co-publisher of a magazine that published articles denying war crimes that were committed against non-Serbs during the Bosnian conflict, has been described by war survivors as a boost for nationalists and historical revisionists.

Fox, a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party and former co-publisher of Living Marxism magazine, who more recently has been a Brexit Party member of the European Parliament, was nominated as a peer by Johnson last week. The British premier gave no reason for his decision.
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A lifelong Eurosceptic, she was previously a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party but later began identifying as a libertarian. She became a registered supporter of the Brexit Party shortly after its formation and successfully ran on its behalf in the 2019 European Parliament election. She was nominated for a peerage in July 2020 despite past opposition to the authority of the House of Lords.
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She’s been all over the place with some of her views. We all have a right to such. Though, denying war crimes in the former Yugoslavia strikes me as being a bit like a Holocaust denier and wrong.
 
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