http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/89601/1/.html SARAJEVO : Bosnian Serbs admitted for the first time that their forces had killed several thousand Muslims in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, saying the perpetrators had tried to cover up the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II. A report by a Bosnian Serb government commission said that it has "established that during the 10-19 July 1995 period several thousand Bosniaks (Muslims) were liquidated in a way which represents grave violations of international humanitarian law." "The perpetrators undertook measures to cover up the crime by moving the bodies," from the place where the victims were killed to other locations, said the report, a copy of which was obtained by AFP. Bosnian Serbs had previously refused to acknowledge the extent of the Srebrenica massacre of some 7,000 Muslim men and boys, carried out by heavily armed Serb troops which overran a small force of United Nations peacekeepers protecting the enclave. The commission "established participation (in the massacre) of military and police units, including special units of the Bosnian Serb interior ministry," said the report, which was submitted earlier today to the government of Republika Srpska. In 2002, the Bosnian Serb government issued a report minimizing the number of victims, triggering outrage among survivors and the international community. The commission was set up in January under heavy international pressure. Post-war Bosnia consists of two semi-independent entities -- the Serbs' Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation. - AFP |