Mesic said Tadic had recently told him that he would apologise on the 10th anniversary of the massacre of over 8,000 Muslim men and boys, which was marked today, saying that it was in the interests of the Serb people.
"I do not know why Tadic did not do it," Mesic told reporters after the commemorative ceremony at the Potocari memorial complex outside Srebrenica. He added that the very presence of Tadic at the commemoration was an apology, but noted that it would have been much more important if Tadic had apologised publicly.
"It deserves to be said that the crime of this kind, which was committed in the name of the Serb people, is against the interests of the Serb people and that criminals must be brought to account," the Croatian president stressed.
Noting that the atrocity had been planned with a view to ethnically cleansing the area of non-Serbs, Mesic said that he would not call the perpetrators the Bosnian Serb army, but rather "an army of Serb cut-throats".
Mesic compared the brutality with which the Serb forces had massacred the Muslims with what Nazi had done during World War Two.
After the ceremony, Mesic went to Kladanj to receive a charter declaring him an honorary citizen of the town. Ten years ago Kladanj, situated about 80 kilometres northeast of Sarajevo on the road to Tuzla, offered shelter to Muslims who had managed to escape from Srebrenica.