War crimes, not genocide in Srebrenica: Serbian president

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Mejra Dzogaz searches for the names of her killed relatives in a memorial plaque before the television broadcast of the court proceedings of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic's in Potocari, near Srebrenica, May 17, 2012. REUTERS photo

The notorious 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica was not genocide but the killings amounted to "grave war crimes," Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said Friday.

"There was no genocide in Srebrenica," Nikolic said in an interview with Montenegrin state television published on its website Friday. "In Srebrenica, grave war crimes were committed by some Serbs, who should be found, prosecuted and punished," he said.