Thousands of people from Bosnia and abroad have gathered in Srebrenica for the annual ritual of commemorating the 1995 genocide. Serb officials deny the atrocities constituted genocide, fueling ethnic tensions and deep divisions within the war-ravaged state.
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. Bosnian muslim women wait for the mass burial ceremony, at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, in Potocari, Bosnia, Thursday, July 11, 2024.
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.Alec Baldwin cast as reckless flouter of rules at his trial in cinematographer’s shooting
President of the Board of Directors of the Srebrenica Memorial Center, Hamdija Fejzic, said that the genocide denial must stop. “The failure to prevent this genocide is a burden we continue to bear,” he wrote. “Both the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice have indisputably determined that this crime is genocide.”
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