The leader of Bosnia's Serbs today called for a government report that acknowledged the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995 to be revoked, triggering possible new tensions in the war-scarred Balkan state.
Milorad Dodik spoke at a parliamentary session of the autonomous Bosnian Serb republic, demanding that the legislature revoke the 2004 report compiled by a previous government which acknowledged the massacre the worst carnage in Europe since World War II.
He said the report was biased and did not mention Serb victims.
Dodik, who advocated that Bosnian Serb territories should split and join Serbia, has always rejected rulings by the U.N. war crimes court that genocide was committed in Srebrenica.
He accused "some Western states" and rival Bosnian Muslims of staging the massacre.
"The Srebrenica crime is a staged tragedy with an aim to satanize the Serbs," Dodik said without elaborating.
He called for the forming of an "unbiased" international investigation into the Srebrenica massacre "in order to stop manipulation with the victims."