Category: Srebrenica Genocide

What happened in Srebrenica

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.

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Bosnian War- A Brief Overview

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

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Uncovering Mass Graves

It is said that there are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. For some women in Bosnia, the stages are on loop. For every time a woman thinks she has buried the remains of her husband or her son, another piece of him resurfaces, and she must re-live the anguish all over again.

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Justice After Genocide

We interview Florence Hartmann, who was a journalist in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s working for Le Monde and later became the official spokesperson for the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

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The Death March

Over 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were murdered in Srebrenica however, after a terrifying and horrific 70-mile march under heavy fire, around 3,500 Bosnian-Muslims escape to safety. This is know as the Death March.

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