Fri, Nov 12, 2004 - Page 7 News List

Bosnian Serbs apologize for genocide

PROGRESS The government of the Serbian statelet expressed regret for the Srebrenica massacre, the first time it admitted to any wrongdoing in the civil war

AFP , BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Several Bosnian Serbs have been convicted by the UN war crimes court for their roles in the atrocity, including general Radislav Krstic who was sentenced in 2001 to 46 years for genocide.

Bosnia's war claimed some 200,000 lives and forced more than two million people, over half the country's population, to flee their homes.

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