Editing Historical negationism (section)

====Serbian war crimes in the Yugoslav wars====
{{Further|Bosnian genocide denial}}
There have been a number of far-right and nationalist authors and political activists who have publicly disagreed with mainstream views of [[Serbia in the Yugoslav Wars#War crimes|Serbian war crimes in the Yugoslav wars]] of 1991–1999. Some high-ranked Serbian officials and political leaders who categorically claimed that no [[Bosnian genocide|genocide against Bosnian Muslims]] took place at all, include former president of Serbia [[Tomislav Nikolić]], Bosnian Serb leader [[Milorad Dodik]], Serbian Minister of Defence [[Aleksandar Vulin]] and Serbian far-right leader [[Vojislav Šešelj]]. Among the points of contention are whether the victims of massacres such as the [[Račak massacre]] and [[Srebrenica massacre]] were unarmed civilians or armed resistance fighters, whether death and rape tolls were inflated, and whether prison camps such as [[Sremska Mitrovica camp]] were sites of mass war crimes. These authors are called "revisionists" by scholars and organizations, such as [[ICTY]].

The ''[[Report about Case Srebrenica]]'' by [[Darko Trifunovic]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=15401773&v3=1|title=Brief Record|publisher=US [[Library of Congress]]|access-date=22 April 2009}}</ref> commissioned by the government of the [[Republika Srpska]],<ref name=Katana>Gordana Katana (a correspondent with Voice of America in Banja Luka). [https://web.archive.org/web/20180103221422/https://iwpr.net/global-voices/regional-report-bosnian-serbs-play-down Regional Report: Bosnian Serbs Play Down Srebrenica], website of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting. Retrieved 25 October 2009</ref> was described by the [[International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia]] as "one of the worst examples of revisionism in relation to the mass executions of Bosnian Muslims committed in Srebrenica in July 1995".<ref>[http://www.icty.org/case/deronjic/4#tjug Judgement against Miroslav Deronjic] ICTY</ref> Outrage and condemnation by a wide variety of Balkan and international figures eventually forced the Republika Srpska to disown the report.<ref name=Katana/><ref name="Newsline030905">{{cite web|title=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Newsline, 02-09-03|url=http://www.hri.org/news/balkans/rferl/2002/02-09-03.rferl.html#70|date=3 September 2005|access-date=3 July 2009}}</ref> In 2017 legislation that banned the teaching of the [[Srebrenica genocide]] and [[Sarajevo siege]] in schools was introduced in Republika Srpska, initiated by President [[Milorad Dodik]] and his SNSD party, who stated that it was "impossible to use here the textbooks ... which say the Serbs have committed genocide and kept Sarajevo under siege. This is not correct and this will not be taught here".<ref>{{Cite news|date=6 June 2017|title=Serb president bans teaching about Sarajevo siege, Srebrenica genocide|language=en|work=Reuters|author=Daria Sito-Sucic|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bosnia-serbs-history-idUSKBN18X1SL|access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref> In 2019 Republika Srpska authorities appointed Israeli historian Gideon Greif – who has worked at [[Yad Vashem]] for more than three decades – to head its own revisionist commission to "determine the truth" about Srebrenica.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Peled |first1=Daniella |title=Why Are Israel's Top Holocaust Scholars So Willing to Deny This Genocide? |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-why-are-israel-s-top-holocaust-scholars-so-willing-to-deny-this-genocide-1.7677900 |work=Haaretz |date=3 October 2019}}</ref>