UN rights chief condemns Bosnian Serb decision on Srebrenica

By iNFOTEL
August 17 2018 06:14 AM

CP338439421 — A Bosnian Serb woman Radojka Filipovic walks through the memorial room for Bosnian Serb victims killed by Bosnian Muslim soldiers in Bratunac, Bosnia, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. President of Bosnian Serbs Milorad Dodik has downplayed the massacre of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica during the war in 1995 and called for the reopening of an investigation into the worst carnage in Europe since World War II. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

BERLIN – The United Nations’ human rights chief is condemning the Bosnian Serb legislature’s decision to revoke support for a report acknowledging the 1995 massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica. He says it will disrupt any attempts at reconciliation.

The assembly voted Tuesday to reject the 2004 report compiled under a previous Bosnian Serb government. The move came ahead of the Oct. 7 Bosnian general election.

Spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said Friday U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein is urging Bosnian Serb authorities to “revisit” the decision.

She said he “fears that tensions, divisions and mistrust already perpetuated by some public and political officials and media organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina could be aggravated by this decision, which appears to be designed for political gain.”

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