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Serbia: Radical Party supporters slam PM Vuvic for attending Srebrenica memorial
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11.07.2015
Around 200 supporters of the nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) gathered in Belgrade, Saturday, to decry Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic’s decision to take part in a memorial ceremony for the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica mass killings in the Bosnian city. The crowd shouted slurs against Vucic, calling him a ‘Balija’, a derogatory term for Bosnian Muslims. Many of the protest’s participants carried flags with the insignia of the Chetniks, a Serbian nationalist guerrilla force. The group also set up a banner reading 'Innocent Kosovo victims - EU and US ignoring Serbian victims' in front of the Serbian Assembly. President of SRS Dr Vojislav Seselj and his vice president Nemanja Sarovic were also present at the demonstration. The protest comes only days after a draft resolution proposed by the British delegation to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), concerning the 1995 mass killing of 8,000 Muslim Bosnians in the town of Srebrenica. The resolution was rejected during a UNSC session in New York after Russian permanent member to the UN Security Council Vitali Churkin vetoed the motion. The British resolution marked 20 years since the killing and called on the UN to recognise Srebrenica as a 'genocide', a position several countries oppose. Russia has described the British draft as divisive, having suggested a more general alternative draft on the same topic.
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