Janja Beč Neumann is Serbian-born sociologist, genocide researcher, writer and lecturer.
[1] In her scientific work she concerns herself in research and lecture with the topics war crimes, genocide and memories at the territories of the former Yugoslavia.
Beč Neumann has been known as a rare voice in Serbia calling for recognition that genocide was perpetrated against Muslims in the Bosnian war.
Considered an authoritative voice on the Srebrenica genocide, she has described the explanations given by Bosnian Serb officials including the Republika Srpska president Nebojša Radmanović for their refusal to attend the collective burial and commemoration ceremonies for the victims as "shameful" and regards the Dutch battalion of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) who expelled civilian refugees from their compound at Potocari in July 1995 as accomplices in what happened.
[3] She describes denial as the last phase of genocide which takes generations to confront, as shown in the case of Germany.