Please sign this petition in order to lobby Facebook to take firm action against those spreding racial, ethnic and religious hatred on its website.
Recently, a group glorifying the Srebrenica genocide was started by a number of Serbian nationalists. The group has been reported and closed by Facebook, however, its original creators keep re-creating it. Facebook need to take stronger action and prevent these groups from being re-created.
See report from Reuters bellow.
Source: Reuters
Bosnians joined in less than 48 hours a group on social networking site Facebook which wants to shut down a Serb nationalist group celebrating the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica.
The group, created on Monday under the name "Close Group Noz Zica Srebrenica," alerted administrators about the language of hatred against Muslims on the site.
"Administrator, we ask you to close the group 'Noz, Zica, Srebrenica', which glorifies the acts of genocide that took place in Srebrenica, where 8,000 men and boys were murdered," read the Bosnian group header on Facebook.
"In addition, this group propagates hatred to all Muslims," it said. Muslims or Bosniaks account for nearly half of the population of Bosnia, which they share with Roman Catholic Croats and Orthodox Serbs.
Young Serbian nationalists set up the group "Noz Zica Srebrenica" (The Knife, The Wire, Srebrenica), which relates to the detention and killing of around 8,000 Muslim men and boys by the Bosnian Serb forces in 1995. The group was set up in Serbian Cyrillic script.
"For all those who respect the acts of Ratko Mladic," the 930-member group said in an appeal to new members. "For all those who think that Muslims are best on the spit and while swimming in sulphur acid," the site said.
The Srebrenica massacre, seen as Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two, was masterminded by Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, who was jailed in July, and his military chief General Ratko Mladic, who is still at large.
Many in Serbia, including young people, still regard the two men as national heroes. But quite a few Serbs have opposed the group's calls on the Internet, calling them fascist and shameful.
No one at Facebook was immediately available to comment.
Reaching this level of support has been an exhausting but necessary reminder that so many of you refuse to look away from this cruelty. The fight against these groups remains a heavy burden but I am grateful that we are carrying it together.
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Emina Stewart
17 years ago
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its sick that people think this is funny. my family went through hell and these cowards hide behind fake profiles just to spread hate. do something facebook!
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Amra Navarro
17 years ago
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8000 lives taken and these people think its a joke? ban them for good. no more reopening these disgusting pages. enough is enough.
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Marko Sharma
17 years ago
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Stop letting these groups exist. It is pure hate speech and should have zero place online.
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Please sign this petition in order to lobby Facebook to take firm action against those spreding racial, ethnic and religious hatred on its website.
Recently, a group glorifying the Srebrenica genocide was started by a number of Serbian nationalists. The group has been reported and closed by Facebook, however, its original creators keep re-creating it. Facebook need to take stronger action and prevent these groups from being re-created.
See report from Reuters bellow.
Source: Reuters
Bosnians joined in less than 48 hours a group on social networking site Facebook which wants to shut down a Serb nationalist group celebrating the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica.
The group, created on Monday under the name "Close Group Noz Zica Srebrenica," alerted administrators about the language of hatred against Muslims on the site.
"Administrator, we ask you to close the group 'Noz, Zica, Srebrenica', which glorifies the acts of genocide that took place in Srebrenica, where 8,000 men and boys were murdered," read the Bosnian group header on Facebook.
"In addition, this group propagates hatred to all Muslims," it said. Muslims or Bosniaks account for nearly half of the population of Bosnia, which they share with Roman Catholic Croats and Orthodox Serbs.
Young Serbian nationalists set up the group "Noz Zica Srebrenica" (The Knife, The Wire, Srebrenica), which relates to the detention and killing of around 8,000 Muslim men and boys by the Bosnian Serb forces in 1995. The group was set up in Serbian Cyrillic script.
"For all those who respect the acts of Ratko Mladic," the 930-member group said in an appeal to new members. "For all those who think that Muslims are best on the spit and while swimming in sulphur acid," the site said.
The Srebrenica massacre, seen as Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two, was masterminded by Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, who was jailed in July, and his military chief General Ratko Mladic, who is still at large.
Many in Serbia, including young people, still regard the two men as national heroes. But quite a few Serbs have opposed the group's calls on the Internet, calling them fascist and shameful.
No one at Facebook was immediately available to comment.
Reaching this level of support has been an exhausting but necessary reminder that so many of you refuse to look away from this cruelty. The fight against these groups remains a heavy burden but I am grateful that we are carrying it together.
3 Comments
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Emina Stewart
17 years ago
Featured
its sick that people think this is funny. my family went through hell and these cowards hide behind fake profiles just to spread hate. do something facebook!
A
Amra Navarro
17 years ago
Featured
8000 lives taken and these people think its a joke? ban them for good. no more reopening these disgusting pages. enough is enough.
M
Marko Sharma
17 years ago
Featured
Stop letting these groups exist. It is pure hate speech and should have zero place online.
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its sick that people think this is funny. my family went through hell and these cowards hide behind fake profiles just to spread hate. do something facebook!