Genocide in BiH Archives

A report by a Bosnian Serb-funded commission has claimed the Srebrenica massacres were not genocide and most victims were not civilians – but some of its controversial assertions are contradicted by evidence heard at trials at international courts.

Survivors of the Srebrenica massacres welcomed the decision by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s international overseer to impose legislation to ban the denial of genocide and war crimes, but some Bosnian Serbs vowed to defy it.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina’s top international official, High Representative Valentin Inzko, used his power to impose amendments to the country’s criminal code to ban the denial of genocide and the glorification of war criminals.

Robert McNeil was one of the first international experts deployed to gather evidence by examining the bodies of victims of the Srebrenica massacres, and memories of what he saw have haunted him ever since.

A report by a commission funded by the government of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity claims that thousands of Bosniaks from Srebrenica who were killed in July 1995 were active soldiers, not civilians.

A Turkish hacker group replaced the front page of the Serbian Finance Ministry’s Public Debt Administration website with a photograph of coffins and a slogan about the Srebrenica genocide.

As the anniversary of the July 1995 massacres by Bosnian Serb forces was marked at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, international officials condemned denial of the genocide and the continued glorification of war criminals.

BIRN’s newly-updated database of wartime mass graves shows that few of the 94 sites where Srebrenica victims were buried have been marked, while others have become overgrown or been used as dumps, ploughed for farming or sold as construction sites.

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Djulsa Velic was one of around 40,000 women, children and elderly people who were expelled from Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995, and her testimony has now become part of a major new oral history project.

Serb political leaders in both Serbia and Montenegro continue to deny that the 1995 Srebrenica massacres were genocide, reject international courts’ verdicts and accuse them of anti-Serb bias, opposing attempts to come to terms with the past.

Genocide in BiH

BIRN Fact-Check: Trial Evidence Contradicts Claims in Bosnian Serbs’ Srebrenica Report

Bosnian Genocide Denial Ban Pleases Survivors, Angers Serbs

Bosnia’s High Representative Imposes Genocide Denial Ban

The Cruelty of Srebrenica Shocked Us, Forensic Investigator Recalls

Bosnian Serb Report Claims Many Srebrenica Victims Weren’t Civilians

Turkish Group Hacks Serbian State Website in Srebrenica Protest

Genocide Denial Condemned as Srebrenica Anniversary Commemorated

Scores of Srebrenica Gravesites Remain Abandoned and Unmarked

‘They Will Kill Us’: One Woman’s Story of Escape from Srebrenica

In Serbia and Montenegro, Srebrenica is Still Politically Toxic

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