Serbia protests after PM Vucic attacked at Srebrenica massacre anniversary
- 9 years ago
Serbia has protested to Bosnia after its prime minister was forced to flee a ceremony in Srebrenica to mark the 20th anniversary of the massacre by Bosnian Serbs of 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
The event was overshadowed when Aleksandar Vucic came under a hail of stones and bottles, in what Belgrade later described as an organised “assassination attempt”.
Serbia still denies the mass murders amounted to genocide, as a UN court ruled it was.
“Yesterday Serbia’s former President Tadic told him: go to Srebrenica and apologise to the people there. Vucic replied ‘I’ll never admit that it was genocide. I’ll go to Srebrenica with my head held high’,” said Rejha Avdic, the mother of a Srebrenica victim.
But the head of the Association of Srebrenica Mothers, Munira Subasic, said she was “terribly disappointed” by the scenes.
Serbia’s PM, once a hardline nationalist, said he had come to build friendship – a move acknowledged by Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, which expressed its “deepe
The event was overshadowed when Aleksandar Vucic came under a hail of stones and bottles, in what Belgrade later described as an organised “assassination attempt”.
Serbia still denies the mass murders amounted to genocide, as a UN court ruled it was.
“Yesterday Serbia’s former President Tadic told him: go to Srebrenica and apologise to the people there. Vucic replied ‘I’ll never admit that it was genocide. I’ll go to Srebrenica with my head held high’,” said Rejha Avdic, the mother of a Srebrenica victim.
But the head of the Association of Srebrenica Mothers, Munira Subasic, said she was “terribly disappointed” by the scenes.
Serbia’s PM, once a hardline nationalist, said he had come to build friendship – a move acknowledged by Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, which expressed its “deepe