It is also a fact that the Muslim forces had slaughtered at least 3,000 Serbs in and around Srebrenitsa just months prior. The "Serb government" who said 8,000 were killed in Srebrenica was a hand-picked group of blackmailed local politicians. As for the bodies - it's been 11 years and still there aren't even close to 8,000 bodies. If you accuse somebody of killing 8,000 people, the least you can do is provide some evidence.
For the whole region, i.e the municipalities of Srebrenica, Bratunac, Vlasenica and Skelani, the Serb authorities claimed previously that about 1400 people were killed due to attacks committed by the BH Army forces for the period of May 1992 to March 1995, when Srebrenica was under the control of Naser Oric. Now the figure has become 3,500 Serbs killed. This figure may have been inflated. Taking the term "victims" as defined previously, these figures just does not reflect the reality.
Indicative of the Serbian numbers are those for Kravica, wherein 43 Serbs were reported killed, without specifying that 13 were civilians, and 30 were members of the VRS who conducted an active defence of the village until withdrawing under fire the day of the attack. Later, Serb sources had the audacity to claim that 353 persons were "virtually destroyed" during the attack, which demonstrates that while the accounting of Srebrenica's Muslim victims has gotten more accurate over time, the Serbian victims have been inflated to try and rationalize what happened to the Muslim victims.
No dice.
As for the bodies - it's been 11 years and still there aren't even close to 8,000 bodies. If you accuse somebody of killing 8,000 people, the least you can do is provide some evidence.
The ICMP reports that around 3,500 Srebrenica victims have thus far been identified, nevermind simply recovered as unidentified, and that "hand-picked group of blackmailed local politicians" was kind enough to reveal the location of 32 as of yet undisclosed Srebrenica related graves back in 2004, which are still to this day being exhumed.
Srebrenica has become a form of IQ test - only a fool attempts to deny what happened there in July of 1995, and the Serbian response to what happened there in large parts explains why the Republika Srpska is being dismantled.