Member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Parliament Enver Bijedic said on Friday he had filed a criminal complaint against Croatian President Zoran Milanovic for making statements questioning the scale of the Srebrenica genocide.

Bijedic is the leader of a small non-parliamentary party called the BiH Social Democrats and he has reported Milanovic to the Bosnian prosecutorial authorities based on amendments to the Criminal Code imposed in late July by former international peace envoy, High Representative Valentin Inzko to outlaw the denial of all war crimes confirmed by court rulings.

Bijedic found the grounds for reporting Milanovic in his statement that “not every genocide is the same,” which he made in a comment on the decision by the leader of the HDZ BiH party, Dragan Covic, to support, with other HDZ BiH deputies in the Bosnian House of Peoples, a proposal by Serb deputies to repeal the law imposed by Inzko.

“On 3 December 2021 Milanovic continued in an even more scandalous tone, trying to downplay the Srebrenica genocide by comparing it to the Holocaust and the Rwanda genocide,” Bijedic said in a statement.

The politician believes Milanovic’s statements caused unrest and additional interethnic intolerance among Bosnian citizens.

Under the amended Criminal Code of 28 July, anyone who publicly condones, denies, grossly downplays or tries to justify the crime of genocide, a crime against humanity or a war crime determined by a final court ruling faces a sentence ranging from six months to five years in prison.