Members of the families of the Srebrenica genocide victims in Kravica on Saturday for the first time laid wreaths and said prayers for Bosniak men and boys, despite the Bosnian Serb entity police attempts to prevent their efforts.
According to the local media, Republika Srpska police tried to prevent the families from entering the site in Kravica, but members of the associations Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa, together with the survivors managed to enter the facilities for the first time in which Serb forces executed approximately 1,200 of a total of 8,300 Bosniaks killed in the Srebrenica area in the summer of 1995.
Representatives of Bosniak associations claim that several women were injured in a clash with the police while trying to enter the facilities.
Republika Srpska chief of police Gojko Vasic said police had not used forced, adding that there was a video footage of the entire incident. He also called on all those with any evidence of police violence to come forward.
In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces under the command of Ratko Mladic overran the UN-protected Srebrenica enclave, killing approximately 8,300 people, mostly Bosniak men and boys.
