Red graffiti reading 8,372 — the official number of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina — has been scribbled on the walls of the Hungarian and Slovakian embassies in Sarajevo.
The graffiti appeared on June 14, three weeks after the United Nations approved a resolution to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide. Hungary was among 19 countries that joined Serbia in voting against the resolution adopted by the General Assembly on May 23. Slovakia was among the 68 countries that abstained from the vote.
The resolution designates July 11 as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica, establishing an annual day of commemoration for the massacre of 8,372 local Bosnian Muslim men and boys.
The Sarajevo Canton police on June 14 confirmed to RFE/RL …