Serbs refusal to use the word genocide leaves open wound

Two decades after the massacre at Srebrenica, Gwynne Dyer reports on how Serbia and its people, with some exceptions, refuse to accept it was an act of genocide

It’s hard to say sorry, but it’s even harder to say you’re sorry for a genocide.

The word just sticks in the throats of those who should be saying it, as the Turks have been demonstrating for the past 100 years in the case of the Armenians of eastern Anatolia. And the Serbs have just shown themselves to be just as tongue-tied in the case of the Bosnian Muslims slaughtered at Srebrenica.