Thousands of people from Bosnia and abroad have gathered in Srebrenica for the annual ritual of commemorating the 1995 genocide.
A Bosnian muslim woman lays flowers at the grave of her relative, victim of the Srebrenica genocide, at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, in Potocari, Bosnia, Thursday, July 11, 2024. Thousands gather in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica to commemorate the 29th anniversary on Monday of Europe's only acknowledged genocide since World War II.
The Srebrenica killings were the bloody crescendo of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, which came after the breakup of Yugoslavia unleashed nationalist passions and territorial ambitions that set Bosnian Serbs against the country’s two other main ethnic populations — Croats and Bosniaks, who are mostly Muslim. “The genocide in Srebrenica did not happen, and if it did, there would be no need to constantly impose this topic,” Bosnian Serb separatist President Milorad Dodik has repeatedly said.
In an op-ed piece in Bosnian media, European Union High Representative Josep Borrell said “Srebrenica remains a deep scar in the history of Europe.” On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serbs overran a U.N.-protected safe area in Srebrenica. They separated more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys from their wives, mothers and sisters and slaughtered them. Those who tried to escape were chased through the woods and over the mountains around the ill-fated town.
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