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Bosnia Serbs apologize to victims of 1992-95 civil war

Bosnia's Serb Republic issued an official apology to the victims of the country's 1992-1995 civil war on Wednesday, two days after a UN court ruled that their forces had committed genocide by killing close to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica.

The statement said the government, which Serbs refer to as Republika Srpska, believed it was "essential that a deepest apology be extended to the victims, their families and friends, regardless of their ethnicity."

"The government of the Republika Srpska expresses its deepest regret for the crimes committed against non- Serbs during the recent war in Bosnia and condemns all persons who took part in these crimes," it added.

The statement also called on the Muslim-Croat Federation, which controls the other half of Bosnia's two-state federation, to issue a similar apology.
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