Some 50 Bosnian Moslem women survivors of a 1995 massacre in the town of Srebrenica requested a meeting Tuesday with visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, reported dpa today. "The Srebrenica Mothers want to ask Chancellor Schroeder to use his influence and urge the apprehension of some 890 (Bosnian Serbs) suspected of the alleged involvement in the Srebrenica massacre," the group said in a statement. Up to 8,000 Bosnian Moslem men were massacred when Bosnian Serb troops captured the former eastern Moslem enclave of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The women planned to gather outside the presidential building in downtown Sarajevo, where Schroeder was scheduled to meet with Bosnian leaders. They requested that Schroeder not meet with the current chairman of the tripartite Bosnian presidency, Serb Borislav Paravac, whom they accuse of the ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs during the war. Schroeder arrived in Bosnia-Herzegovina Tuesday for a one-day official visit. The German chancellor was also scheduled to meet with Bosnian Prime Minister Adnan Terzic and international administrator Paddy Ashdown in Sarajevo. He also planned to meet German soldiers deployed in Bosnia with the European Union Force (EUFOR). At 1,100 troops, the German contingent is one of the largest in the E.U.-led peace force.
