Edited sentence: "Evidence given at The Hague war crimes tribunal casts serious doubt on the figure of "up to" 8,000 Bosnian Muslims massacred.As he said in a July 14, 2005 edition of Canada's The Globe and Mail, under "The Real Story Behind Srebrenica", he stated:.Lewis MacKenzie, the former commander of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia is an outspoken Srebrenica genocide denier.Many of the men and boys were executed and burried in mass graves.More than 2,000 bodies have been recovered in and around Srebrenica, and they include victims of the three years of intense fighting in the area.That figure includes "up to" 5,000 who have been classified as missing.The math just doesn't support the scale of 8,000 killed.... It's a distasteful point, but it has to be said that, if you're committing genocide, you don't let the women go since they are key to perpetuating the very group you are trying to eliminate.There is however doubt on the actual severity of the atrocities commited