SARAJEVO, April 15 (Hina) - The international community's high representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, has described as "scandalous" a report by a special commission set up by the Bosnian Serb government to determine what
happened in Srebrenica in July 1995 when Serb forces under Ratko Mladic killed at least 8,000 Bosniaks.
SARAJEVO, April 15 (Hina) - The international community's high
representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, has described as
"scandalous" a report by a special commission set up by the Bosnian
Serb government to determine what happened in Srebrenica in July 1995
when Serb forces under Ratko Mladic killed at least 8,000 Bosniaks.#L#
A statement issued by the Office of the High Representatives on
Thursday says that the interim report, instead of providing answers to
the question as to what happened in Srebrenica, "sets out a catalogue
of unbelievable difficulties and obstructionism" in collecting facts.
"It is simply not acceptable that nearly a decade after the shocking
crimes of Srebrenica there are still individuals or institutions in
the Bosnian Serb entity, the Srpska Republic, who are trying to cover
up these crimes," the statement said.
Ashdown warned that "the implications of the interim report are of
such a serious nature that I will be forced to take direct action."
A decision on the steps to be taken by the international community in
this matter will be announced on Friday.
Ashdown has explicitly said he holds Serb entity president Dragan
Cavic and premier Dragan Mikerevic directly responsible for the work
of the Srebrenica fact-finding commission.
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