Srebrenica, 16 years on. Today marks the 16-year anniversary of the massacre at Srebrenica in Bosnia on July 11, 1995. The worst mass killing in Europe since WWII, Srebrenica was the site where Bosnian Serb forces executed 8500 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys during the Bosnian war. It is the only episode of those wars to have been officially deemed an act of genocide. They were then buried, but later the bodies were removed and buried at a remove from the site to cover the extent of the crime. Mass graves are still being dug up. Today, 613 victims found in the last year will be given proper burial rights.  Srebrenica is the deepest wound for Muslims in Bosnia. It is a black spot on the conscience of the international community and on the conscience of those who committed the crime. Bakir Isetbegovic, the Muslim member of Bosnia’s three-man presidency. This massacre is central to the current Hague trials of Serbian army chief, Ratko Mladic, and his political advisor, Radovan Karadzic, who were both centrally responsible for this genocide. The two are charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Pictured: A woman mourns over one of the coffins of a newly-identified victim of the massacre, to be buried today in Potocari cemetery. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty viathe Irish Times

Srebrenica, 16 years on. Today marks the 16-year anniversary of the massacre at Srebrenica in Bosnia on July 11, 1995. The worst mass killing in Europe since WWII, Srebrenica was the site where Bosnian Serb forces executed 8500 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys during the Bosnian war. It is the only episode of those wars to have been officially deemed an act of genocide.

They were then buried, but later the bodies were removed and buried at a remove from the site to cover the extent of the crime. Mass graves are still being dug up. Today, 613 victims found in the last year will be given proper burial rights. 

Srebrenica is the deepest wound for Muslims in Bosnia. It is a black spot on the conscience of the international community and on the conscience of those who committed the crime.

Bakir Isetbegovic, the Muslim member of Bosnia’s three-man presidency.

This massacre is central to the current Hague trials of Serbian army chief, Ratko Mladic, and his political advisor, Radovan Karadzic, who were both centrally responsible for this genocide. The two are charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Pictured: A woman mourns over one of the coffins of a newly-identified victim of the massacre, to be buried today in Potocari cemetery. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty viathe Irish Times

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