Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visits Bosnia

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Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has visited the Srebrenica memorial centre and meeting with the families of the victims of the 1995 slaughter of over 8,000 men and boys at the end of Bosnia's war.

Together with the British Ambassador Edward Fergusson, Sturgeon laid a wreath Sunday and paid tribute to the victims of the crime qualified by the World Court as genocide.

The victims were Muslim Bosniaks, executed by Serb forces who overran the east Bosnian town in the worst carnage in Europe since World War II.

Sturgeon also visited a day-care centre for children with mental disabilities founded by a Scottish charity, the Christine Witcutt Memorial Fund.

(AP)