'Iraq like Srebrenica' says Renzi

(see related)(ANSA) - Rome, August 20 - Premier Matteo Renzi said Wednesday that ongoing slaughter at the hands of fundamentalist Islamic State (ISIS) militia in Iraq amounts to genocide, as happened in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.
    "I was 20 years old (at the time) and the international community did nothing while the Srebrenica genocide took place," said Renzi, Italy's youngest premier at 39.
    "Many in my generation said 'Never again'. What is happening now in areas of Syria and Iraq amounts to genocide: women separated from the men, children gunned down, journalists decapitated," the premier said just before leaving Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
    "Europe cannot afford to remain silent this time, because this battle is in the very heart of Europe," said Renzi.
    Bosnian Serbs in July 1995 slaughtered more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica, in what the United Nations described as the worst crime on European soil since World War II.