Srebrenica–Potočari Memorial and Cemetery
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BELGRADE – As has been the case before, the stance towards the Srebrenica genocide is one of the tools the government uses in an attempt to discredit the opposition, both the pro-European and the right-wing.
Recently, a video has been published on an anonymous YouTube channel compiling all statements by politicians from the “Serbia Against Violence” opposition coalition related to the Srebrenica genocide, dating back several years.
While only officials from the Green-Left Front party in the video characterised the crime in Srebrenica as genocide, the video’s author raises the question: “Is there anyone on the ‘Serbia Against Violence’ list who does not believe that Serbs are a genocidal people?”.
Coincidentally or not, almost all pro-government media outlets asked the same question on the day they published articles based on the YouTube video from an unknown author.
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