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Many serbs believe srebrenica massacre video is fake Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=768192005 http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=768192005 Serbs 'in denial' over Srebrenica killings Mon 11 Jul 2005 CHRIS STEPHEN IN SREBRENICA THE tall concrete cross on a patch of land outside Srebrenica is eloquent testimony to the hostility that still burns here ten years after 8,000 Muslims were slaughtered by Serb forces. Erected by local Serbs two months ago, the cross commemorates not the Muslims killed, but the smaller number of Serbs who died besieging this former Bosnian enclave. There is no mention on the inscription of the massacre that took place just yards away. Survivors gathering today to mark the anniversary say the siting of this cross is deliberately provocative - it sits just 50 yards from the burned-out shell of Kravica warehouse, where 1,200 Muslims were murdered. "It is a provocation for those who are coming to mark the tenth anniversary of genocide," said Sabra Zahirovich, from the Women and Mothers Association of Srebrenica and Zepa. "They will try to use every way to minimise the victims of Srebrenica." For ten days in July 1995, Serb forces herded men and teenage boys into this warehouse, then opened fire with machineguns. The walls are still pockmarked with bullet holes. Yet most Serbs remain in denial. When Drazen Erdemovic, a Croat soldier forced by the Serbs to take part in the massacre, came forward in 1996 to admit the slaughter, many Serbs refused to believe him. When video footage recently emerged showing Serb police butchering Muslim prisoners, an opinion poll in Serbia found 30 per cent believed the film was fake. Serbia's president Boris Tadic will turn up at today's remembrance ceremony, insisting the crime was an outrage yet refusing to arrest the man most responsible - former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic. Mladic remains living freely in Serbia ten years after being indicted by the UN. "The town remains as divided now as it was then - there is minimum communication between the Serbs and the victims who have returned," said Nerma Jelacic, Bosnia director for the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. "Denial and revisionism still thrives in this divided country."

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