The president of the Serb-run part of Bosnia-Herzegovina claimed Saturday that the Srebrenica genocide was a “lie,” a week ahead the 20th anniversary of the slaughter.
Speaking at a commemoration for Serbs killed in villages around Srebrenica during Bosnia’s bloody civil war, Milorad Dodik denounced a British bid to pass a United Nations resolution on the genocidal killing of the area’s male Muslim population in 1995.
“The goal is to register at the U.N., on the base of false declarations and reports, that a genocide was committed against Muslims,” Dodik, the leader of Republika Srpska, told several hundred people gathered at the village of Bratunac near Srebrenica. “Everything is a recurrent lie. We are told, ‘You should not deny.’ How not to deny a lie? You are the ones who are not telling the truth. Where are the 8,300 men? Why do you lie?” Dodik said in a speech broadcast live on the Bosnian Serb public television channel RTRS.
(Source: japantimes)
