Bosnian Serbs Form New Panels to Re-examine Srebrenica, Sarajevo Victims

Two women pass a bridge, damaged by Serb artillery fire, to cross the Bosna river 27 March 1994. At right, the half-destroyed mosque of Maglaj. The siege of this mainly Moslem enclave was lifted last week. Photo credit should read ERIC CABANIS/AFP/Getty Images

SARAJEVO—The government of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic set up panels on Feb. 7 to re-examine the number of victims in Srebrenica and Sarajevo during Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war, a move Western countries view as a push to revise history.

Bosnia is formed out of the Serb Republic and a federation representing its ethnic Croat and Muslim Bosniak communities, under the peace deal that ended the bloodiest of the 1990s wars that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia.