Serbian Prime Minister drove to the ceremony in memory of the events in Srebrenica – RIA Novosti

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MOSCOW, 11 July – RIA Novosti. Serbian Prime Minister Alexander Vucic had to flee the ceremony organized to commemorate the anniversary of the Srebrenica events, reports AFP.

As soon as Vucic laid flowers to the monument, the crowd began chanting “Allahu Akbar” and throwing stones at him. Prime Minister escaped under the cover of his guards.

Earlier, Vucic said that he was ready to go to 20-year anniversary of the events in the Bosnian Srebrenica and pay homage to the victims of war crimes. He noted that he was ready to lay his head to show the attitude in Serbia for the innocent victims of Srebrenica, including to “99.99% of Serbs who are not involved in the events in Srebrenica, could walk with his head.”

Memorable events in connection with the events in Srebrenica held annually on July 11 at the memorial complex in the village of Potocari and collected tens of thousands of people. So far from Serb leaders attended the event only former president Boris Tadic in 2010. Among themselves the Bosnian political and religious leaders there is no unity, honor any invitation to the Serbs to these ceremonies.
Bosnia and Herzegovina announced in 1992 to secede from Yugoslavia, followed by the war in the country with the participation of the Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks), Serbs and Croats, which lasted until 1995.

According to the estimates of the international community, about 8,000 Muslims were killed in Srebrenica in July 1995 as a result of the operation of the army of Bosnian Serbs led by General Ratko Mladic. At that time, more than 30 thousand people were deported. The siege of Srebrenica and the subsequent mass executions of the male population of the city is considered one of the bloodiest episodes of the war in BiH.
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Court of Justice has classified the massacre in Srebrenica as genocide. Serbia denies the crime, but so far does not call them genocide.

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