In the Republic of Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina, thousands of Bosnian Serbs protested against a UN draft resolution commemorating the Srebrenica massacre. The protest participants in Banja Luka, the seat of government of the Republic of Srpska, followed a call from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik on Thursday evening. They unfurled a huge Serbian flag in the streets of the city.
According to a draft resolution tabled by Germany and Rwanda, available to the AFP news agency, July 11 next year should be declared “International Day in Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide.” July 11, 2025 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.
Bosnian Serb leader Dodik called such a resolution unacceptable. He has repeatedly denied that the Srebrenica massacre was a genocide.
He said on RTRS on Thursday that he is sorry for ‘every victim’. But it is ‘a lie that eight thousand people were murdered in seven days’. The Serbs must be “burdened with historical responsibility,” he added. He also said he hoped for “more than 40,000 people” at the demonstration.
Massacre classified as genocide
In the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, Bosnian Serb units murdered approximately 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the summer of 1995. The massacre is considered the worst war crime in Europe since World War II and has since been classified as genocide by international courts.
The UN war crimes tribunal has sentenced then Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić and his army chief Ratko Mladić to life imprisonment, including for the Srebrenica massacre.
Source: Krone
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