Outgoing Dutch PM begins Bosnia visit at memorial to Srebrenica genocide victims

Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, pays his respects after laying a wreath at the Srebrenica Memorial Center in Potocari, Bosnia, on Monday (Armin Durgut/AP)

Outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has begun a two-day visit to Bosnia with a stop in Srebrenica, where he paid his respects to victims of the 1995 genocide.

The Netherlands has long wrestled with the legacy of the massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust.