July 11 marked the 29th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre
July 11 marks the 29th anniversary of the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Since then, the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina pay tribute to the memory of more than 8,000 Muslims who were killed by Serb separatists and the military in Srebrenica on July 11, 1995.
The Srebrenica massacre is considered the worst human disaster in Europe since World War II.
Every year on July 11, the remains of the victims of the genocide are buried in the cemetery in Potochari after the identification process.
The United Nations Security Council declared Srebrenica a safe area in April 1993.
However, this did not prevent massacres. The city was captured on July 11, 1995 by the Bosnian Serb army led by Ratko Mladic. Mladic was later convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity by the International Tribunal in The Hague and sentenced to life in prison.
Bosnian civilians try to seek UN protection from Dutch peacekeepers, but the Dutch hand them over to the Serbs.
More than 8,000 Bosnians died in forests, factories and warehouses. The bodies of the killed Bosnians were buried in mass graves.
Earlier we reported that the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution recognizing the events in Srebrenica as genocide in 1995 and designating July 11 as a day of remembrance for the victims of the Bosnian Muslim genocide.
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