Haris Silajdzic said on Wednesday that "Europe is more inclined to the fascism of Serbian territorial expansionism than to democracy championed by the Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims)".
Speaking at a round table discussion in Sarajevo, Silajdzic said he did not want to use diplomatic language any more when commenting on the ICJ ruling that the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, constituted genocide, but that Serbia was not responsible for the mass killings.
Silajdzic accused the international community, notably European countries, of being unfair and inconsistent in their treatment of Bosnia-Herzegovina during and in the wake of the 1992-1995 war.
The ICJ ruling is only a continuation of that policy based on prejudice against Muslims, said Silajdzic, a former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
He added that the ruling, however, paved the way for the adoption of a law that would forbid denial of genocide in Bosnia and for a request that Srebrenica be taken out of the administrative organisation of the Republic of Srpska (Bosnian Serb entity).
The association of Bosniak war veterans who participated in the 1991-1995 Croatian Homeland War issued a statement in Zagreb on Wednesday condemning the ICJ ruling.
Croatian Bosniak war veterans believe that all people who think differently from the ICJ will be above standards set by the court's ruling and that they will not let such a move humiliate them and prevent them from progressing towards the future having in mind what happened in the past.