Bosnian Serb lawmakers adopt report denying Srebrenica genocide

Bosnian Serb lawmakers on Thursday adopted a report denying that the killing of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war constituted genocide, and thousands of Serbs later protested against a United Nation's resolution to commemorate the atrocity. The massacre in 1995, which happened in the week after the U.N. safe zone of Srebrenica was attacked by Bosnian Serb forces, was seen as Europe's worst atrocity since World War II, and international courts have ruled it constituted genocide. The parliamentary step came as Serbia and Bosnia's autonomous Serb Republic campaign against a resolution to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide that is being debated in the United Nations and should be voted on in the General Assembly in early May. After the vote in the Serb Republic's parliament, thousands of people from across the region joined a protest against the resolution organized by the ruling coalition in the Serb Republic's de facto capital of Banja Luka. Milorad Dodik, the region's nationalist president, said that the Bosnian Serb army operation in Srebrenica "was a crime but it was not a genocide." (Reuters) 