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Serbian PM forced to flee Srebrenica massacre memorial
Source: Reuters
World | Sat Jul 11, 2015 8:54pm EDT
Serbian PM forced to flee Srebrenica massacre memorial
POTOCARI, BOSNIA | BY DARIA SITO-SUCIC AND MAJA ZUVELA
Serbia's prime minister was forced to flee a ceremony held to mark 20 years since the Srebrenica massacre on Saturday, when mourners hurled stones and bottles at him in what his government later described as an attempted assassination.
Bodyguards surrounded Aleksandar Vucic and rushed him away through a crowd that turned on him moments after he entered the cemetery and laid flowers to 8,000 Muslim men and boys executed after the U.N. safe haven fell to Bosnian Serb forces towards the end of the 1992-95 war.
Stones and bottles were thrown from the crowd, some of whom were heard to cry “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest), in an attack underscoring the depth of anger over Belgrade's denial of the massacre as genocide.
Serbia, which backed the Bosnian Serbs during the war with men and money, condemned the attack as an “assassination attempt”.
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Serbian PM forced to flee Srebrenica massacre memorial
POTOCARI, BOSNIA | BY DARIA SITO-SUCIC AND MAJA ZUVELA
Serbia's prime minister was forced to flee a ceremony held to mark 20 years since the Srebrenica massacre on Saturday, when mourners hurled stones and bottles at him in what his government later described as an attempted assassination.
Bodyguards surrounded Aleksandar Vucic and rushed him away through a crowd that turned on him moments after he entered the cemetery and laid flowers to 8,000 Muslim men and boys executed after the U.N. safe haven fell to Bosnian Serb forces towards the end of the 1992-95 war.
Stones and bottles were thrown from the crowd, some of whom were heard to cry “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest), in an attack underscoring the depth of anger over Belgrade's denial of the massacre as genocide.
Serbia, which backed the Bosnian Serbs during the war with men and money, condemned the attack as an “assassination attempt”.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/12/us-bosnia-srebrenica-idUSKCN0PL00720150712
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