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Bosnia’s High Representative Imposes Genocide Denial Ban
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...
The Cruelty of Srebrenica Shocked Us, Forensic Investigator Recalls
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...
Bosnian Serb Report Claims Many Srebrenica Victims Weren’t Civilians
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...
Turkish Group Hacks Serbian State Website in Srebrenica Protest
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.
Genocide Denial Condemned as Srebrenica Anniversary Commemorated
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...
Scores of Srebrenica Gravesites Remain Abandoned and Unmarked
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...
‘They Will Kill Us’: One Woman’s Story of Escape from Srebrenica
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...
In Serbia and Montenegro, Srebrenica is Still Politically Toxic
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...
Srebrenica Convictions: 700 Years of Jail Time, Five Life Sentences
The decision by the UN court in The Hague last month to uphold the life sentence handed down to former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic takes the number of...
Kosovo Parliament Adopts Resolution Recognising Srebrenica Genocide
Weeks after parliament in Montenegro passed a similar resolution, Kosovo's parliament has adopted its own resolution condemning denial of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide committed by Bosnian Serb forces.