Could this have been prevented?
Unlike the Mounties’ apology for the taser death of a sick man, the Serbian parliament’s acknowledgment of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and how it could have done more to prevent it is a step in the right direction.
The Serbians have long denied the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in 1995, with some MPs going so far as to claim that the if the murders did take place, the Bosnians were responsible for it. The current resolution reads:
The parliament of Serbia strongly condemns the crime committed against the Bosnian Muslim population of Srebrenica in July 1995 … condolences and an apology to the families of the victims because not everything was done to prevent the tragedy
The pro-Western government pushed this through parliament to appease the EU, and hopefully jump-start its membership process. The motivations, therefore, weren’t very noble, but its a start nonetheless.
