Srebrenica slaughter

TODAY marks the 25th anniversary of the massacre of Bosnian Muslims or Bosniak by Bosnian Serb soldiers. The numbers vary, but they are said to range from 7,000 to 8,000. The Economist, the English weekly, places the massacre at 8,372 based on the commemorative cups of coffee to be filled at the ceremony. There are other accounts that tell of more. Yet, Serbs, with not inconsiderable help from their media, continue their denial of the Srebrenica slaughter like the deniers of the Holocaust used to. There are many such Serb genocide deniers in Serbia and Bosnia. Tom Mockaitis, a professor of history at DePaul University, describes the slaughter as the worst of Europe’s massacre since World…