The Srebrenica massacre like all other massacres in the Balkans, will remain an indelible stain on humanity's consciousness until the lacking justice is served, Kosovo's Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said during a meeting with Kosovo Bosniak community representatives - Minister of Regional Development Ramis Demiri, a delegate in the Kosovo Assembly Dudo Balje and former delegate Dzezair Mirati, on Thursday, on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
Haradinaj honoured the Srebrenica genocide victims on behalf of the Kosovo people and noted that the Albanian people will always share its pain with the Bosniak people.
“Milosevic's savage regime committed atrocious massacres in Kosovo as well, for which we still feel great pain,” Haradinaj said.
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He emphasized that the world must never stay quiet on any genocide whether its victims were Bosniaks or Kosovars.
Derimi, Balje and Murati thanked Prime Minister Haradinaj for his continuous respect for the Bosniak community and compassion with the pain for the victims of Srebrenica genocide, the biggest massacre in Europe after the World War Two.
The remains of 33 genocide victims were laid to rest, Thursday, after their families identified them and decided to bury them even if the skeletal remains were incomplete.
Numerous local and foreign dignitaries attended the commemorative ceremony and sent messages of peace and warned that such events must never happen again.
During the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, countless war crimes were committed but the war culminated with the genocide of the Summer of 1995.
In April 1993, the UN had declared the besieged enclave of the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica a safe area under UN protection.
However, in July 1995, the Dutch battalion soldiers failed to prevent the town's capture by the Bosnian Serb forces and the massacre that followed.
More than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed in the days following July 11, 1995, and so far the remains of more than 6,600 have been found and buried.
