Montenegro passes resolution condemning Srebrenica genocide

Parliament resolution, which also bans denying the genocide, comes as the justice minister is sacked for doing so.

Montenegro’s parliament has adopted a resolution condemning the Srebrenica genocide and dismissed a pro-Serb minister who recently denied the massacre, exposing a rift within the ruling coalition. Legislators on Friday voted by 43 to 27 to replace Justice Minister Vladimir Leposavic for disputing that the 1995 killing of some 8,000 Bosniak Muslims in Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb forces late in the Bosnian War amounted to genocide. Leposavic had said in March that he would acknowledge the killings as a genocide only when it had been “unequivocally determined”.