Backlash over genocide denial ban in Bosnia

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Thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica in 1995. It was the worst atrocity on European soil since World War II. For decades, Serb leaders in Bosnia-Herzegovina have denied that it was a genocide, even after two top international courts declared it as one. Now, a new law banning genocide denial has come into force in the country. But it is already facing backlash, as The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

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