Abstract
The first funeral and burial of genocide victims in Srebrenica was held in 2003. The most remarkable aspect of the commemorations was not the burials and speeches but rather the travel from Sarajevo to Srebrenica. Travelling through Serb towns and villages that had once been 90% Bosniak meant witnessing hundreds of local Serbs displaying tricolor flags and posters of wanted war criminals Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić while being subjected to the shouting of racist slogans such as “ubij turčina” (“Kill the Turk,” i.e., Muslims). The celebration of genocide is visible throughout Serbia and the Republika Srpska, from official celebrations of war criminals to less visible manifestations. Bosnian-Australian scholar Hariz Halilovich calls these “acts of Triumphalism” and suggests that, in the context of the Bosnian Genocide, this is the final stage of genocide. Based upon his definition, this chapter identifies the key elements of Triumphalism and shows that this is not a grassroots spontaneous act, but rather a state-level project aimed at distorting legal, judicial, and academic facts while rewriting history.