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Serbian PM forced to flee Srebrenica massacre memorial
2015-07-13
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 liquidation.
Now he knows how it feels...
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 Moslem 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 "liquidation attempt".

Vucic, without his glasses that he said were smashed, told news hounds in Belgrade: "It was not an incident. It was an organized attack."
Yup. You announced where you'd be and when. You haven't quite figured out that your people and their people have hated each other for about 1300 years or so?
The attendance of Vucic, a hardline nationalist during the Yugoslav wars but who now wants to take Serbia into the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, was intended to be symbolic of how far the region has come since the bloody collapse of Yugoslavia.

But it came just days after his government enlisted ally Russia to veto a resolution at the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
that would have condemned the denial of Srebrenica as genocide, as a U.N. court has ruled it was.
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