Bosnian Muslims say they’re surprised that the House of Commons did not include the 1995 Srebrenica massacre last week during its acknowledgment of 20th-century genocides.
Parliament unanimously passed the motion designating April as Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Month.
It cited four atrocities: the Holocaust, the 1915 Armenian massacre by Ottoman Turks, the 1932-33 Holodomor famine of Ukrainians, and the 1994 slaughter of ethnic Tutsis in Rwanda.
But the 1995 Bosnian massacre of more than 1,000 Muslim men and boys — the worst slaughter of civilians on European soil since the Holocaust — was left out of the private members’ bill tabled by …read more
Source: National Newswatch