City: Srebrenica Archives

Hasan Hasanovic remembers how he and his brothers began a perilous trek from Srebrenica to escape Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 - but one brother was shot dead and the other injured, leaving him to try to carry his wounded sibling to safety.

Thirty-three more victims of the 1995 mass killings of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces will be buried at the annual commemoration at the Srebrenica memorial centre on July 11. On the 24th anniversary of Srebrenica genocide on July 11, the remains of 33 more people will be buried at a collective funeral at the memorial centre in the village of Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Missing Persons Institute told BIRN.

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The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner, Dunja Mijatovic, urged the European rights and democracy organisation to adopt July 11 as an official remembrance day for the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.

The president of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, Carmel Agius, said in Sarajevo that the people who deny genocide should be condemned and prosecuted.

A former Bosnian Serb deputy interior minister told the trial of eight Serb ex-policemen that army security chief Ljubisa Beara triggered a massacre of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in the village of Kravica in 1995. Tomislav Kovac, who was deputy interior minister in the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity in July 1995, when the Kravica massacre happened, told Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday that Ljubisa Beara, who at the time was the security chief of the Main Headquarters of the Bosnian Serb Army, was to blame for the killings.

The Belgian government has announced plans to criminalise denial of the Srebrenica genocide, but similar legislation is not likely to find political support in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the massacres happened, or in Serbia.

The former president of Republika Srpska is demanding reconsideration of a decision refusing his appeal against his life sentence.

Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic said he will contest his life sentence for genocide and other wartime crimes - although the UN court has only ever reviewed a final sentence once before.

Milan Bogdanovic, a former commander of police special units, was acquitted of capturing Bosniak men from Srebrenica in July 1995 and enabling others to abuse and kill them.

Bosnian Serb wartime fighter Sasa Cvetkovic was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the murder of two elderly Roma women and the rape of two Bosniaks in the Srebrenica and Bratunac areas in 1992. The state court in Sarajevo on Friday found Sasa Cvetkovic guilty in a first-instance verdict of the murder of two elderly Roma civilians in the village of Kolonija, near Srebrenica, and the rape of two women in Bratunac, in June 1992.

City: Srebrenica

Escape from Srebrenica: Three Brothers’ Deadly Journey

33 Srebrenica Victims to Be Buried at Genocide Commemoration

Council of Europe Urged to Back Srebrenica Remembrance Day

UN Tribunal Chief: Genocide Deniers Should be Prosecuted

Bosnian Serb Ex-Official Blames Army Officer for Massacre

Bosnia, Serbia Unlikely to Copy Belgium’s Genocide Denial Law

Karadzic Seeks Review of Decision Refusing Appeal

Radovan Karadzic Announces Appeal Against Life Sentence

Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman Acquitted of Srebrenica Crimes

Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter Convicted of Wartime Murders, Rapes

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