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Former Bosnian Serb fighters and representatives of victims' associations laid wreaths at a memorial.
"Justice and punishment have to reach everyone, victims and perpetrators, no matter who they are," said Serb Veterans Minister Rade Ristovic, SRNA reported.
On Saturday, more than 20,000 Muslims gathered in Srebrenica to bury 534 newly identified victims on the 14th anniversary of the wartime massacre.
The worst atrocity in Europe since World War II took place near the end of Bosnia's inter-ethnic war, after Serb forces overran the then UN-protected enclave, summarily killing some 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
Serb deputies in the Bosnian parliament blocked an initiative to declare July 11 the Srebrenica genocide remembrance day in the former Yugoslav republic.
Bosnia's inter-ethnic war cost 100,000 lives and left the country split into two highly autonomous entities -- the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Serbs' Republika Srpska.
The International Court of Justice and the UN war crimes tribunal, both based in The Hague, have ruled that the massacre was an act of genocide.
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"Justice and punishment have to reach everyone, victims and perpetrators, no matter who they are," said Serb Veterans Minister Rade Ristovic, SRNA reported.
On Saturday, more than 20,000 Muslims gathered in Srebrenica to bury 534 newly identified victims on the 14th anniversary of the wartime massacre.
The worst atrocity in Europe since World War II took place near the end of Bosnia's inter-ethnic war, after Serb forces overran the then UN-protected enclave, summarily killing some 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
Serb deputies in the Bosnian parliament blocked an initiative to declare July 11 the Srebrenica genocide remembrance day in the former Yugoslav republic.
Bosnia's inter-ethnic war cost 100,000 lives and left the country split into two highly autonomous entities -- the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Serbs' Republika Srpska.
The International Court of Justice and the UN war crimes tribunal, both based in The Hague, have ruled that the massacre was an act of genocide.
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