Bosnian Serb police have clashed with relatives of Srebrenica genocide victims, women who came to visit a site where their family members were executed 18 years ago

Bosnian Serb police have clashed with relatives of Srebrenica genocide victims, women who came to visit a site where their family members were executed 18 years ago.

The incident in Bosnia took place in Kravica near Srebrenica on Saturday, when 50 police officers tried to block some 150 women from entering a farm warehouse, where their husbands and sons were killed in 1995.

Seven or eight women were injured in scuffles with the police, said one participant Kada Hotic.

They came to commemorate and lay flowers for the more than 1,000 men who were killed at the warehouse.

Since the 1995 genocide, relatives of the victims have never been allowed to visit the warehouse.

“We demanded to be allowed to enter it (warehouse) in a dignified way and lay flowers,” said Hatidza Mehmedovic, head of the Mothers of Srebrenica association.

After the incident, Bosnian Serb police eventually allowed the women to enter the site and said they would launch an investigation into the incident.

The confrontation occurred just two days after 409 newly identified victims were reburied during a memorial ceremony for the Srebrenica genocide.

In July 1995, a few months before the end of the three-year Bosnian war, Bosnian Serb forces attacked Srebrenica, which was a designated ‘safe area’ protected by UN peacekeeping troops.

More than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed in the genocide.

Reports say as many as 2,306 victims from the massacre are still missing.

The Srebrenica genocide was the culmination of a policy of ethnic cleansing by Bosnian Serb military Commander Ratko Mladic’s forces to create a pure Serb state out of Bosnia.

During Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, about one hundred thousand people were killed by Serb troops.