User talk:Evahelena

Hello Evahelena

I've explained on the talk page of the Srebrenica genocide/massacre article why I reverted your edit referring to the Bleiburg massacres. To be absolutely accurate, the Bleiburg-associated massacres occurred before the end of World War II, but that's not the main point. The key reference to the worst crime (rather than massacre) committed on European soil since WWII is from the UN Secretary-General's message to the 2005 commemoration at Potocari. http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=1570 The Secretary-General was acknowledging the failure of the international community to make sure that all the commitments made after WWII when the United Nations was set up and the Genocide Convention was adopted were adhered to. The Secretary-General was acknowledging the UN's own failure but above all he was pointing out that fifty years after the end of World War II, at the end of the 20th century, an atrocity as terrible as Srebrenica was allowed to take place in spite of all the promises of "Never again". So I hope you won't see me reverting your message as implying any disrespect for your own reasons for making the point about Bleiburg. (Incidentally I've tried to correct the reference to "the worst massacre" to "the worst crime" as per the Sec-Gen, but other people edit it back so I've just come to accept it). Opbeith (talk) 14:11, 9 March 2011 (UTC)