In court the following day, Schabas tried to clarify his 2013 remarks in the Al Jazeera documentary "The Hidden Genocide". "The journalist persistently tried to get me to apply the word genocide ... And I just as persistently refused, cause I've never said that genocide was taking place in Myanmar." "He, frankly, doesn't think Srebrenica was (genocide) and that was found by the courts (to be genocide)," said Rapp. "I am not arguing with anybody about whether genocide took place in Srebrenica. His distinct interpretation of the crime of genocide has led some people to call him a genocide denialist, a criticism he rebuffed.

Source: International New York Times December 13, 2019 00:56 UTC