How did the 2004 Republika Srpska apology address crimes committed at Srebrenica?

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Two women in headscarves embrace and mourn over a green coffin among rows of identical coffins at the Potocari cemetery during the Srebrenica massacre mass funeral. — Srebrenica genocide Women mourning over a coffin before the mass funeral for 136 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, 2015.

In 2004, under significant international pressure, the government of the Republika Srpska issued an official apology for the "enormous crimes" committed in Srebrenica.1

As part of this acknowledgment, the government recognized that an estimated 7,800 individuals had perished during the massacre. This formal statement served as a critical, albeit difficult, step in addressing the atrocities perpetrated by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995, during which more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were systematically killed.12