Paper sued for denying genocide in Bosnia
By swissinfo.ch
19 April 2010
A German-based human rights group is suing a Swiss newspaper for its denial of the Serb genocide of
Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995. The Society for Threatened Peoples filed a suit on Monday in
cooperation with the Swiss Association Against Impunity (TRIAL) in Lausanne.
La Nation, the bimonthly newspaper in question, recently published a series of articles claiming that 2,000
soldiers were killed in Srebrenica’s "pseudo-massacre".
Bosnian Serb forces overran the Muslim Bosniak town in July 1995, executing 8,000 men and boys in
Europe’s worst massacre since the Second World War.
In 2007, the International Court of Justice ruled the executions were genocide.
Swiss law prohibits genocide denial.
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