Genocide

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (RNS) — Nearly three decades later, Srebrenica’s dead are still coming home. Earlier this month, the remains of 27 men and three teenage boys were delivered to the remote valley that played host to Europe’s second genocide of the 20th century. The victims, identified by the International Commission…

Victims’ mothers and survivors of the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks paid tribute to more than 1,300 men and boys who were executed in an agricultural warehouse in the village of Kravica by Bosnian Serb forces. This post is also available in this language: Shqip Bos/Hrv/Srp Mothers of the victims and…

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Published Jul 10, 2023  •  Last updated 7 hours ago  •  1 minute read Hasan Kapo, right, travelled from his home in Hamilton to participate in the Bosnian-Canadian community's Windsor commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide on July 8, 2023. The ceremony was held at the monument to the victims…

Higher prosecution to investigate fans' hate chants after media published video footage of a group of fans chanting a slogan celebrating the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks in Srebrenica. Members of football fan group Vojvode at a match in Niksic. Photo: Vojvode football fan group Montenegro’s Higher prosecution on Tuesday launched…

Former Bosnian Serb Army general Vinko Pandurevic in court in The Hague in March 2005. Photo: EPA/Robert Vos. Vinko Pandurevic, wartime commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik Brigade, told Belgrade Higher Court on Monday that Milenko Zivanovic, who commanded the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps, did not run the…

They were the ones who lived in a world in which their husbands, sons, brothers, uncles and nephews were massacred. They were the ones who fought to make sure that the world would neither deny nor forget the truth of what happened in Srebrenica. As thousands converge on the eastern…

NEZUK, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Thousands of people joined a peace march on Friday through forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II. The 100-kilometre (60-mile) march traces a route taken by men and boys from the Bosniak ethnic group,…

A view of Potocari cemetery after 19 victims of the Srebrenica Genocide, whose identities have been detected being buried in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina on July 11, 2021. (Photo by Nihad Ibrahimkadic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) The Srebrenica massacre was the July 1995 genocide of more than 8 000 Bosniak…

UN judges on Tuesday upheld the genocide life sentence of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in the final verdict on Europe's worst act of bloodshed since World War II. US President Joe Biden hailed the "historic" confirmation that the man dubbed the "Butcher…