Berlin: Germany withdraws official honors from Israeli historian who denied genocide of Muslims in Bosnia in 1995.
According to the International News Agency, Germany has withdrawn its decision to award the "Order of Merit" to Israeli historian Gadian Griff.
The German government took the step in response to an Israeli historian's denial of the 1995 genocide of Bosnian Muslims. The Israeli historian distorted the facts and claimed that the death toll in Bosnia was much lower than reported.
A statement issued by the German Foreign Ministry said that the proposal to honor the historian was made by the government of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, but the proposal to honor the Israeli historian for denying the Muslim genocide in Bosnia was withdrawn. Is.
Earlier, Germany had strongly criticized the decision to award a high-level award to Audi Auschwitz concentration camp historian Gadian Griff, on which Germany had written a letter to a Bosnian Muslim scholar.
In a letter to the German Foreign Ministry, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier wrote that the Israeli historian had downplayed the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and therefore expressed his deep regret to honor Gaddafi Griff as head of the award commission. I withdraw the decision.
On the other hand, Israeli historian Gadian Griff said that members of the Bosnian Muslim Brotherhood had damaged his reputation. In Bosnia's capital, Sarajevo, the decision not to give the award has been welcomed.
