Victims of the Srebrenica genocide were commemorated at Belgrade's Republic Square on Friday, marking 30 years since the massacre, Report informs.
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights organized the memorial event. Participants lit candles and laid flowers in tribute to those killed.
The organization called on Serbian state institutions to adopt the United Nations General Assembly resolution on the Srebrenica genocide and implement its recommendations, including officially recognizing July 11 as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide.
German Ambassador to Serbia Anke Konrad attended the event, which was held under police protection and concluded without incident.
July 11 is observed as the remembrance day for the victims of the Srebrenica genocide. In July 1995, during the 1991–1995 war in the former Yugoslavia, Bosnian Serb forces killed at least 8,300 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around Srebrenica, in what international courts have recognized as genocide.