UN condemns Bosnian Serbs over Srebrenica claims

CHALLENGING both the UN war crimes tribunal and world opinion, the Bosnian Serb government said yesterday far fewer Muslims were killed at Srebrenica than the 8,000 commonly reported.

The government report - which also disputed findings that most of the victims were civilians - was denounced by the top international official in Bosnia as a “callous and irresponsible” attempt to rewrite Europe’s worst massacre since WW11.

The report, issued two months before local and national elections in the Bosnian Serb part of the republic and the other half, run by Muslims and Croats, appeared to reflect continued strength by hard-liners loyal to Radovan Karadzic.