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The town was supposed to be a “safe area,” protected by U.N. peacekeepers, but Serb forces massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys there.
SREBRENICA, Bosnia (Reuters) -Thousands of Bosnians marked the 30th anniversary of a massacre in which more than 8,000 Muslim Bosniak men and boys were executed by Bosnian Serb forces during a 1992-1995 war at a cemetery near Srebrenica on Friday.
Christiane Amanpour speaks to David Scheffer, former US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, about the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
Miles de personas de Bosnia y de todo el mundo se reunieron en Srebrenica para conmemorar el 30mo aniversario de una masacre en la que
Now, only fragments of her and fragments of her previous life remain in this world. So, by composing the picture in a way that her son’s and husband’s pictures along with her head are together - the rest of her body is not. I want to convey exactly that message: Only in dreams, when her eyes finally close, does she feel whole again.
On this day in 1995, at the height of the war in the former Yugoslavia, the Bosnian Serb army captured what was supposedly the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica. In the ensuing days, thousands of Bosnian Muslim women were raped. 8000 Muslim men and boys were murdered. It was Europe's worst massacre since the Second World War.
The Duchess of Edinburgh travelled to Bosnia where 8,000 Muslim men and boys were massacred by Bosnian Serbs in July 1995 during the brutal wars in former Yugoslavia