Mortal remains of 19 victims of the Bosnian Genocide will be buried at the Potocari-Srebrenica Memorial Centre this year. Each year, mass graves are uncovered containing the remains of those who were killed in the genocide in 1995.
Ethnic cleansing was at the heart of the Bosnian war and genocide right from the earliest days.
On 6th April 1993, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 819, declaring that Srebrenica and a 30 square mile area around the town was a United Nations Safe Area. The UN promised the people of Srebrenica safety and security. Their promises fell through as genocide began.
It belies the imagination: the horror of a mother as she tries in vain to protect her daughters from the attack of brutal, vicious soldiers. Elmina Kulašić pays tribute to her mother, and all the mothers of Bosnia.
50 years after the Nazi decree that Jews should wear the star of David, Bosnian Muslims were ordered to wear white armbands, as they were marked for execution.
Over the course of just three years, torn by a rising wave of ethno-nationalism , the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia disintegrated into five successor states: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later known as Serbia and Montenegro). Click on the interactive map to see how this unfolded.
The names of the 8,372 victims (mostly men and boys) who were killed in the Srebrenica genocide. Abdurahmanović Hajrudin Šefko Abdurahmanović Idriz Fehim Abdurahmanović Ismet
It is estimated that somewhere between 20-50,000 women were raped during the war in Bosnia. Women were imprisoned in gyms, hotels, abandoned houses, and concentration camps.
Following the disintegration of Yugoslavia, leaders utilising ethno-nationalism rose to power across the region The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, founded in 1943 during
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, David Rohde, explains the Srebrenica genocide within the wider context of the Bosnian War.
The name Srebrenica has become synonymous with those dark days in July 1995 when, in the first ever United Nations declared safe area, thousands of men and boys were systematically murdered and buried in mass graves.
