Abstract
This paper focuses on the memorialization of the 1992-95 Bosnian war and its core event, the crime of genocide, through the lens of the recently imposed genocide denial ban. It first positions the amendment penalizing genocide denial into a broader category of memory laws, and then explores the content and scope of the recently imposed legsilation, as well as the reactions and consequences it has provoked up to now. The paper argues, on the one hand, that the genocide denial law represents an important and necessary instrument to combat an alarming normalization of genocide denial, and a shameful glorification of war criminals. On the other hand, the paper maintains that it is unlikely that an internationally imposed memory law can initiate reconciliation in a deeply divided society. On the contrary, it shows how the genocide denial ban has finished to trigger an internal memory war, which has plunged the country into its most serious political and constitutional crisis since the war ended in the 1990s, reviving calls for secession and fears of a new war.