The Marks of 20 Years Since Srebrenica Genocide

Tens of thousands of people have gathered near the town of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, to mark the 20th anniversary of Europe's worst mass killing since the Holocaust.

Dozens of dignitaries -- including Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright, and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu -- are in eastern Bosnia for the July 11 ceremony.

But the event was marred by a crowd throwing stones and other objects at the Serbian prime minister, whose country, along with ally Russia, has staunchly opposed calling the Srebrenica massacre at the hands of Bosnian Serbs a genocide.


Vucic was forced to flee as the hurled objects sent members of his delegation running for their cars on a hill nearby the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial and cemetery.​

A spokeswoman later said Vucic had been hit in the face with a stone and his glasses broken.

'Monstrous Crime'

There were reports earlier of scattered booing as Vucic arrived, but he was greeted by a welcoming line that included mothers and other family members of Srebrenica's victims, one of whom exchanged an embrace before another placed a commemorative flower in Vucic's lapel.