The outgoing Prime Minister of Montenegro, Dritan Abazović, will participate in the commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica, which will be held on July 11 in Potočari, the Pobjeda portal reports.
Last year, Abazović attended the commemoration of the anniversary of the genocide and gave a controversial speech, according to many.
At the commemoration in Potočari, he said then that “genocide was not committed against Bosniaks, but against people”. He also said that the genocide “was not committed by armies, but by policies of evil, death and fraud”.
After fierce reactions from the regional public, as well as calls from the Srebrenica Memorial Center, and the director of this Center, Emir Suljagić, and the “Mother of Srebrenica” organization, Abazović apologized, explaining that he did not have a clearly expressed thought.
“Forgive me, mothers of Srebrenica, for the vaguely expressed thought. It is known that every act depends on its goal. My goal is peace. The genocide committed against the Bosniaks in Srebrenica should never be repeated to anyone,” said Abazović at the time.
For now, there is no information whether the outgoing Montenegrin Prime Minister will speak in Potočari this year.
Last year, Suljagić apologized to the families of the victims for having to listen to the relativization of the facts of the genocide established by the courts 100 meters from the grave, as he wrote on Twitter at the time.
The memorial center then addressed Abazović directly, thanking him for being in Potočari, but with an additional warning.
“Genocide was committed against Bosniaks, because the motive of the killing was not ‘killing people’, but the killing and destruction of a people. This is what the verdicts of international courts teach you. Read them,” they told Abazović at the time, Klix.ba reports.
