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BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA marked the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre yesterday, calling on Serbian leaders to acknowledge the reality of the atrocity.
“I am calling on our friends from around the world to show, not just with words but also with actions, that they will not accept the denial of genocide and celebration of its perpetrators,” Sefik Dzaferovic, the Bosnian Muslim member of the country’s tripartite presidency, said.
The massacre was the most brutal episode of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, which began after the break-up of Yugoslavia. Work to identify victims continues and on Saturday nine newly identified men and boys were laid to rest in the expanding memorial cemetery.
Though Serbia has issued an apology for the killing of at least 8,000 Bosniaks by the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska in 1995, it rejects terming it genocide, arguing that Serbs were also victims of ethnically targeted killings during the wars that broke up the former republic of Yugoslavia.
