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Open letters over vile tweet by Serbian official
An insulting tweet posted by the Deputy Speaker of Serbia's Parliament following the death of the head of the Mothers of Srebrenica association has drawn a barrage of criticism from politicians in Bosnia, with some calling for cutting cooperation with the Serbian Parliament.
"I ask of you, as a lawmaker from Podrinje, Srebrenica, to halt any kind of cooperation with Serbia’s Assembly until someone apologises for this (...)," a state lawmaker from the Independent Bloc political >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << party, Sadik Ahmetovic, wrote in an open letter to the Speaker of the state Parliament and his deputies.
The Deputy Speaker of Serbia’s Parliament and member of the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS), Vjerica Radeta, took to Twitter on Tuesday and posted the offensive tweet.
"I read that Hatidza Mehmedovic from the association of Srebrenica businesswomen has died. Who is going to bury her? The husband or sons?" she wrote.
The tweet was later deleted.
The Serbian Radical Party has repeatedly denied the genocide in Srebrenica, calling it a hoax.
Mehmedovic lost two sons, Almir (18) and Azmir (21), as well as her husband Abdulah (44), in the 1995 massacre but returned to her hometown in 2003.
She ran the 'Mothers of Srebrenica' association, raising awareness about the massacre in Srebrenica, often referred to as the worst crime committed on European soil since WWII. She called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice for more than 20 years.
On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces overran the eastern Bosnian enclave and rounded up the town’s Muslim Bosniaks, separated men from women and little children and systematically executed some 8,000 men and boys.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice later ruled that the massacre was an act of genocide.
The leader of the Nasa Stranka (Our Party) Predrag Kojovic wrote an open letter to the Serbian Embassy in Bosnia, criticising Radeta’s tweet.
"Since this is a person in a very important post in the governmental system of the Republic of Serbia and that her statement has not only upset Bosniaks, but all of us citizens in Bosnia, I consider it necessary to reach out to you with this letter and ask of you, as the diplomatic representative of Serbia in Bosnia, to publically distance yourself from the stance of the Deputy Head of your National Assembly," party leader Kojovic wrote.
