Dozens of billboards about the Srebrenica genocide have been erected in neighbouring Serbia, a month after the UN General Assembly voted on the resolution, a BGNES reporter reports.
"We are not a genocidal nation! We remember! Proud Serbia and Serbian," the message - part of a major Serbian campaign to deny the crime committed 30 years ago launched by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik - said.
BGNES recalls that on 23 May the UN General Assembly established 11 July as the "International Day of Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide".
In July 1995, Serbian forces commanded by General Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic carried out the largest massacre of civilians in Europe since World War II in the Bosnian enclave. They massacred over 9 000 people in just a few days. To this day, the bodies of more than 8 000 of them have been found. The victims are buried in the area of Potocari.
At the beginning of June, Dodik's Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (ANSD) launched a campaign to change the name of the municipality of Srebrenica. Earlier, on 30 May, Dodik stated that in Srebrenica on 11 July "nobody died, nobody was killed, there were no operations". Republika Srpska /RS/ also set up a working group to draw up an agreement on "peaceful disengagement" of the entity with the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On 8 June, a so-called All-Serbian Council was held in Belgrade, at which Vucic and Dodik declared "a common future for the Serbian people".
Serbia's deputy prime minister and Vucic's right-hand man, Aleksandar Vulin, also denied genocide and threatened the Balkans with a new redrawing of borders along the lines of former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. | BGNES
