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Dodik keeps denying scope of Srebrenica atrocity
HINA Croatian news agency
July 10, 2018

ZAGREB, July 10 (Hina) -- Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik on Tuesday again denied the gravity of the war crimes in Srebrenica where over 8,000 victims were killed when Serb forces overran that eastern Bosnian enclave in mid-July 1995, insisting that the number of the victims was half that.

Ahead of the the commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of the Srebrenica atrocities, which will be held on Wednesday, the Bosnian Serb entity's president said that he would do his utmost to make sure that a document which was adopted by the then entity government in Banja Luka confirming the scope of the Srebrenica massacre would be withdrawn.

"Documents of the Hague Tribunal (the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia) mention figures of about 3,500 to 5,000 casualties, while the report (made by the Bosnian Serb government in 2004) put the number of victims at 8,700," Dodik said on Tuesday during his visit to the town of Modrica, northern Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Dodik is known for persisting on denying the Srebrenica genocide.

In 2004, the then Bosnian Serb entity president Dragan Cavic said that he was deeply ashamed of the "black page in the history of the Serb people", referring to the war crimes committed by the Serb police and army in the summer of 1995 in Srebrenica. Cavic said then that the perpetrators could not justify their action in any way.
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Editor's note: Despite Milorad Dodik's attempts to suppress it, the RS Government's 2004 report remains available online:

Report of The Commission for Investigation of the Events in and around Srebrenica between 10th and 19th July 1995, Banja Luka, June 11, 2004.

Addendum to the Report of the 11th June 2004 on the Events in and around Srebrenica between 10th and 19th July 1995, Banja Luka, October 15, 2004.

 


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