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Home / News / World News / Commemorating the Srebrenica Massacre
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    Commemorating the Srebrenica Massacre

    Sripriya Yegneswaran
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    Last updated on Jul 11, 2015, 09:39 am
    Commemorating the Srebrenica Massacre
    Credits:
  • Thousands of Bosnians prepare to mark the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre in Potocari.

    Funeral services will be conducted for the recently identified bodies of 136 victims.

    Bill Clinton, US President at the time of the massacre along with Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu and Serbian PM Aleksander Vucic will attend the commemoration ceremony.

    Commemorations were banned in Serbia after warnings from right-wing groups.

  • In this article
    The genocide that killed thousands Reburials in secondary and tertiary gravesites Indictment of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic Units constituting former Yugoslavia Bill Clinton unveils the Srebrenica Memorial US role in ending Bosnian conflict Mass grave discoveries, arrests and apologies Russia vetoes UN resolution on Srebrenica Commemorating the Srebrenica Massacre
  • Jul 1995

    The genocide that killed thousands

    The genocide that killed thousands
  • The Srebrenica massacre of July 1995, involved killing of close to 8000 Bosniak Muslims - boys and men by Bosnian Serb forces in the town of Srebrenica, Bosnia.

    This occurred in a UN designated 'safe area'.

    The massacre was conducted in the name of 'ethnic cleansing' and is considered the worst episode of mass murder in Europe after WW II.

  • Aug-Nov 1995

    Reburials in secondary and tertiary gravesites

    Reburials in secondary and tertiary gravesites
  • Between August and November 1995, there was an organized effort to remove the victims of Srebrenica massacre from primary mass gravesites to rebury them in secondary and tertiary gravesites.

    The trial chamber at International Criminal Tribunal found that the reburial effort was an attempt to conceal the evidence of mass murders.

    The missing persons are being identified over the years through DNA analysis.

  • 16 Nov 1995

    Indictment of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic

    Indictment of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic
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  • On 16 Nov 1995, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, who commanded the Bosnian Serb military forces responsible for massacre, were indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal.

    They were alleged to be directly responsible for the planning, instigation, ordering or otherwise aiding and abetting in the planning, preparation or execution of the crimes committed in July 1995 in Srebrenica.

  • Do you know?

    Units constituting former Yugoslavia

  • Between 1991 and 1992, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was broken down and various countries formed which now include: Bosnia and Herzgovina, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Montenegro.

  • 20 Sep 2003

    Bill Clinton unveils the Srebrenica Memorial

    Bill Clinton unveils the Srebrenica Memorial
    Credits:
  • On 20 Sep 2003, Bill Clinton unveiled the memorial cemetery for the victims of the Srebrenica massacre.

    At the memorial, Clinton said, "We must pay tribute to the innocent lives, many of them children, snuffed out in what must be called genocidal madness."

    "Let us who still live remember our obligation to them, to establish a lasting and just peace," he added.

  • Information

    US role in ending Bosnian conflict

  • US intervened in the Bosnian conflict and demanded the UN to agree to NATO air strikes. Largely due to the NATO operations, the Dayton Peace Accord was signed by Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia in Nov 1995 to end the war.

  • 2006-2013

    Mass grave discoveries, arrests and apologies

    Mass grave discoveries, arrests and apologies
  • In 2006, 42 mass graves were uncovered around Srebrenica.

    In 2008, war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade.

    In March 2010, the Serbian parliament passed a resolution condemning the Srebrenica massacre and apologized for not doing more to prevent it.

    In April 2013, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic apologized for the massacre but stopped short of calling the tragedy a 'genocide'.

  • 8 Jul 2015

    Russia vetoes UN resolution on Srebrenica

    Russia vetoes UN resolution on Srebrenica
    Credits:
  • The UN Security council resolution that described the Srebrenica massacre as a "crime of genocide" was vetoed by Russia.

    Russian ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin, called the language "confrontational" and "politically motivated".

    While Russia vetoed, 10 members voted in favor and four abstained - Angola, China, Nigeria and Venezuela.

    Two international tribunals based at The Hague have previously ruled the massacre as genocide.

  • 11 Jul 2015

    Commemorating the Srebrenica Massacre

    Commemorating the Srebrenica Massacre
    Credits:
  • Thousands of Bosnians prepare to mark the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre in Potocari.

    Funeral services will be conducted for the recently identified bodies of 136 victims.

    Bill Clinton, US President at the time of the massacre along with Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu and Serbian PM Aleksander Vucic will attend the commemoration ceremony.

    Commemorations were banned in Serbia after warnings from right-wing groups.

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