site.btaSerbian President Vucic Condoles with Families of Bosniak Victims of Srebrenica

On the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic expressed condolences on X, calling it "a terrible crime". He wrote in English: "Today marks thirty years since the terrible crime in Srebrenica was committed. We cannot change the past, but we must change the future. Once again, on behalf of the citizens of Serbia, I express my condolences to the families of the Bosniak victims, confident that a similar crime will never happen again."

Interviewed by the privately owned Radio Television Pink on Thursday evening, Vucic said he was proud that 10 years ago, he attended the commemoration of the victims in Potocari. He stressed that he demonstrated his respect despite the pressure and attacks he faced at the time.

In 2015, in his capacity as prime minister, Aleksandar Vucic travelled to Potocari, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, to attend the ceremony commemorating more than 8,000 Bosniaks killed by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995. After laying flowers at the memorial, while on his way to the stand designated for official delegations, Vucic was booed and pelted with plastic bottles and clumps of earth. His security detail responded swiftly and escorted him out of Potocari.

Then, as now, Vucic did not use the word "genocide" to describe what happened 30 years ago during the war between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The civil war in Bosnia (1992-1995) led to the deaths of more than 100,000 people and the displacement of millions.