Srebrenica Massacre, A commemoration ceremony in Bosnia

Tens of thousands of people poured into the Bosnian town of “Srebrenica” today, to attend a ceremony for the 20th anniversary of the genocide that took place there.

Dozens of foreign dignitaries attended the ceremony, including the former US President Bill Clinton and the Prime Ministers of several Western Balkan countries, as well as Prime Minister Edi Rama.

The Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic arrived at a memorial complex on Saturday, for the ceremony commemorating the 8,000 Muslim men and boys who were killed in the town by Bosnian Serb forces.

In a statement that was released shortly before his arrival, Vucic condemned what he called the “monstrous crime” committed in in July 1995, near the end of Bosnia’s inter-ethnic war.

This did not stop Vucic and his delegation from being attacked with stones and other objects during their visit to the memorial.

The Bosnian Serb forces overran the UN-protected safe haven of ‘Srebrenica’ on July 11th, 1995. The troops loaded thousands of Muslim men and boys onto trucks and executed them in a nearby forest, to be later buried in mass graves.