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10 July 2015
- From the section Europe
Belgrade authorities have banned gatherings to commemorate the Srebrenica massacre, after right-wing groups threatened to disrupt events.
Saturday is the 20th anniversary of the massacre, in which some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces.
Activists had planned to mourn the victims outside the Serb parliament.
Serb police responded to plans of counter-demonstrations by banning all gatherings at parliament on Saturday.
Serbia’s Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said he had taken the decision to guarantee “peace and security in the whole of Serbia”.
But the initiator of the planned commemoration, Dusan Masic, said it was “scandalous”, and showed “where Serbia is in 2015”.
Balkanist magazine tweeted that a commemoration would take place on Friday evening instead.
Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic plans to travel to Bosnia for the official memorial events in Srebrenica.
