Serbian police ban gatherings by both by liberals and nationalists on

The remains of 136 Srebrenica genocide victims were readied for burial in the Bosnian town where in 1995 Europe experienced its worst massacre since World War II.

Foreign Affairs chief Federica Mogherini is arriving Friday to represent the European Union at Saturday’s commemorations while Bill Clinton will be heading the USA delegation, which includes ex- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and congressmen and senators. More than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were first separated from women and girls and then systematically slaughtered in a series of massacres.

On Wednesday, Russian Federation vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have condemned the massacre as a genocide to mark its 20th anniversary.

On Thursday, after a meeting with EC President Jean Claude Juncker in Brussels, Serbia’s Prime Minister, Vucic, said he would be attending a July 11 commemoration event in Potocari (Bosnia-Herzegovina), despite security warnings to the contrary. He said he wanted to bow his head before the victims of the “horrible crime”.

The plan to have 7000 people lie in central Belgrade streets to illustrate the magnitude of the Srebrenica massacre had been blasted by nationalists, including extremist groups, who scheduled counter-protests in the capital.

Several Serb ultranationalist groups, who claim fewer than 8,000 people died in Srebrenica and that they were all Muslim soldiers who had killed Serbs, had pledged to disrupt the event.

Bosnia’s war ended with a U.S.-brokered peace agreement that divided the once ethnically mixed country in two ministates – one run by the Serbs, the other shared by the Bosniaks and Croats.

Serbia’s Interior Ministry has banned anticipated public gatherings in Belgrade by Srebrenica “genocide deniers”.