Media coverage of the Srebrenica genocide commemoration at the weekend continued to feed competing narratives of what happened in July 1995, reinforcing divisions.
Azem Kurtic
Thirty-one years after the Srebrenica genocide, the court-established facts remain unchanged, yet the narratives served up in the media vary wildly from one part of the Balkans to another.
The July 11 anniversary of the killing of some 8,000 Bosniak men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces received extensive coverage in the mainly Bosniak and Croat Federation entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina but scarcely got a mention in the predominantly Serb-populated Republika Srpska.
In what reports there were in Republika Srpska, the term ‘genocide’ was studiously avoided in favour of terms such as ‘crime’ or suffering’.
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