The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has initiated a case against the president of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, for denying Srebrenica genocide. 

According to the law, after the initiation of the case, the Office of the Prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina conducts an investigation, after which the prosecutor of the case decides whether to file an indictment. 

After this procedure, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirms or rejects the indictment. 

"Genocide didn't happen there, all of us in the Republika Srpska know that," Dodik said during a media conference in Banja Luka on February 21. 

During the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995, forces of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS) killed approximately 8,000 men and boys in and around Srebrenica. 

More than 25,000 women, children and the elderly were expelled from the area, which was then under the protection of the United Nations. 

The massacre has been described as the worst atrocity in Europe since the end of the World War II, while the International Court of The Hague has recognized it as genocide. 

According to the Institute of Missing Persons of Bosnia and Herzegovina, over 1,200 victims of the Srebrenica massacre are still missing. 

So far, 47 people have been sentenced to more than 700 years in prison for their roles in the genocide. 

The former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, has been sentenced to life in prison, as has the former military leader in Bosnia, Ratko Mladic.