Investigators exhume bodies at a mass grave at Srebrenica in 1996.
A mourner at the Potocari Memorial Centre in Srebrenica in July 2018
Delegates of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) examine an exhumed mass grave of victims of the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre, outside the village of Potočari, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2007.
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Bosnian Muslims – Genocide in Bosnia
Over 7,000 Srebrenica Victims have now been recovered.
The First Day of Bosnian Genocide, 31 March 1992. Serb forces hunt down and kill Bosniak civilians in the city of Bijeljina.
Investigators exhume bodies at a mass grave at Srebrenica in 1996.
During the first three months of war, from April to June 1992, the Bosnian Serb forces, with support from the JNA, destroyed 296 predominantly Bosniak villages in the region around Srebrenica, forcibly uprooted some 70,000 Bosniaks from their homes and systematically massacred at least 3,166 Bosniaks.
By seeking to eliminate a part of the Bosnian Muslims, the Bosnian Serb forces committed genocide.
Bosnia concentration camp
The Bosnian War was characterised by bitter fighting, indiscriminate shelling of cities and towns, ethnic cleansing, and systematic mass rape, mainly perpetrated by Serb.
Deprived of all goods and rights they had to experience the misery of homeless and jobless refugees. Those who tried to defend their homes were either massacred and killed or put into concentration camps, tortured and raped. The process started in 1991 and is still going on in Kosovo.
During the first three months of war, from April to June 1992, the Bosnian Serb forces, with support from the JNA, destroyed 296 predominantly Bosniak villages in the region around Srebrenica, forcibly uprooted some 70,000 Bosniaks from their homes and systematically massacred at least 3,166 Bosniaks.
Deprived of all goods and rights they had to experience the misery of homeless and jobless refugees. Those who tried to defend their homes were either massacred and killed or put into concentration camps, tortured and raped. The process started in 1991 and is still going on in Kosovo.
Bosnia concentration camp
During the first three months of war, from April to June 1992, the Bosnian Serb forces, with support from the JNA, destroyed 296 predominantly Bosniak villages in the region around Srebrenica, forcibly uprooted some 70,000 Bosniaks from their homes and systematically massacred at least 3,166 Bosniaks.
Some of the more than 6,500 gravestones at the Srebrenica.
Burial of 775 identified Bosniaks in 2010
Witness to the Bosnian genocide (1992-95)
Exhumation of the Srebrenica massacre victims
Exhumation of the Srebrenica massacre victims
The murder and rape of pregnant women by fighters during the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina remains one of the least-researched aspects of wartime brutality.
Exhumation of the Srebrenica massacre victims
Rights groups have often suggested that rape was used as a weapon of war against civilians in the Bosnian conflict. Up to 50,000 women are estimated to have been raped during the war, but only around 30 direct perpetrators have been convicted by domestic courts and the international tribunal in The Hague.
Serb forces set up "rape camps", where women were subjected to being repeatedly raped, and only released when pregnant
Bosnia concentration camp
Exhumation of the Srebrenica massacre victims
Remains of a pregnant Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim)…
United Nations peacekeeping officials were unwilling to heed requests for support from their own forces stationed within the enclave, thus allowing Bosnian Serb forces to easily overrun it and—without interference from U.N.
Skull of a victim of the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Exhumed mass grave outside the village of Potočari, Bosnia and Herzegovina. July 2007.
Bosnia concentration camp