Srebrenica memorial turns ugly as Bosnian Muslims mob Serbian Prime Minister

An angry crowd hurling stones and plastic bottles has forced Serbia’s premier to flee a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre of some 8000 Muslims in Bosnia, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II. Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic had just laid a flower at a monument for the Bosnian Muslim men and boys killed and buried there when the crowd started chanting “Allahu Akbar” (God Is Great) and throwing stones. Vucic ran for cover shielded with umbrellas by his bodyguards who were hit by the hail of stones as some in the crowd shouted insults at the Serbian leader.   Vucic, while calling the attackers “monsters”, had refused to accept the word “genocide”. The prime minister, whose country backed Bosnian Serbs during and after the 1990s interethnic war in Bosnia, was among numerous dignitaries, including former US president Bill Clinton, and tens of thousands of people attending the commemoration in the eastern Bosnian town.