(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) BRUSSELS, July 13 (KUNA) -- A national monument to commemorate the victims of the genocide at Srebrenica is to be erected in The Hague, Dutch media reported Monday.
The decision follows a request from the Bosnian community in the Netherlands supported by the Dutch defence and foreign affairs ministries, Dutch News NL said.
"It is important that The Hague as a city of peace and justice is a place of remembrance of the tragedy that unfolded in 1995," The Hague's mayor Jan van Zanen commented.
The Yugoslavia tribunal was held in The Hague and the International Court of Justice, also in The Hague, defined the massacre as an act of genocide in 2007.
Samir Hajdarevic, chair of the Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide committee, said he was "absolutely delighted" with the support for a national monument.
It is not clear yet where the monument, will be placed.
"It was 25 years ago on 11 July when 8,372 people, mainly Bosnian Muslims, were slaughtered by radical Bosnian Serbs in the worst massacre since the Second World War," noted Dutch News NL. (end) nk.mt
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