Iran’s Foreign Ministry, in a statement released on Friday, called on international bodies and institutions to adopt all necessary measures to identify and try those responsible for the unprecedented bloodshed in a bid to prevent repetition of such incidents.
“The massacre (in Srebrenica) not only astounded the world but also exhibited the incompetence of the so-called advocates of human rights in defending its basic principles,” the statement pointed out.
Srebrenica was a UN-protected Muslim town in Bosnia which was besieged by Serb forces during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.
Serb troops led by General Ratko Mladic overran the city in July 1995, separated men from women and killed 8,000 men and boys within just a few days.
The bodies of the victims are still being found in mass graves throughout eastern Bosnia.
The task has been made even more difficult by the fact that the perpetrators dug up mass graves and reburied remains in other mass graves to try to cover their tracks.
The victims have been identified through DNA analysis and newly identified ones are buried at the Srebrenica memorial center every year.
Mladic was arrested last year in Serbia and is on trial now at The Hague. He faces 11 charges, including genocide, for allegedly masterminding Serb atrocities throughout the war that left thousands dead, especially the Srebrenica massacre.
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