DID YOU KNOW?  -- Three years before the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, Serbs torched Bosniak villages and killed at least 3,166 Bosniaks around Srebrenica. In 1993, the UN described the besieged situation in Srebrenica as a "slow-motion process of genocide." In July 1995, Serbs forcibly expelled 25,000 Bosniaks, brutally raped many women and girls, and systematically killed 8,000+ men and boys (DNA confirmed).

10 July, 2010

SREBRENICA GENOCIDE MEMORIAL ON 10 JULY 2010

#1. A worker fixes a nameplate at a newly dug grave in Srebrenica Genocide Memorial cemetery on July 10, 2010. 775 bodies, found in mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia and identified through DNA method will be reburied on 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide. More than 8,000 men and boys from the enclave were captured and systematically killed by Bosnian Serb forces in the days after the fall of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995. The victims were shot and interred in mass graves, then reburied haphazardly later in more than 80 sites in a bid to cover up the evidence. Many women were brutally raped.


#2. Participants of the Peace March rest at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial cemetery for Srebrenica massacre victims in Potocari on July 10, 2010. Some five thousand Bosniaks participated in a three day march along the route survivors of the Srebrenica massacre used in 1995 to avoid genocide. Bosnian Serb troops massacred more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and underage boys after capturing Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Many women were brutally raped and some 30,000 Bosniaks were forcibly expelled from the enclave.


#3. A Bosnian Muslim family visits the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial cemetery in Potocari near Srebrenica on July 10, 2010. 775 DNA-identified bodies found in mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia in the past 12 months will be reburied on July 11 on 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. More than 8,000 men and underage boys from the enclave were captured and systematically killed by Bosnian Serb forces in the days after the fall of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995. The victims were shot and interred in mass graves, then reburied haphazardly later in more than 80 sites in a bid to cover up the evidence. 30,000 Bosniaks were expelled from the enclave and many women and underage girls were sexually abused and gang raped by Serb soldiers.


#4. A Bosniak man walks newly dug graves, prepared for 775 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in Potocari July 10, 2010. Each year, bones are matched to a name and buried in a mass funeral on July 11, the anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre of more tha 8,000 Bosniak men and boys by the Bosnian Serb forces. Some 30,000 Bosniaks were expelled from the enclave, and many women and underage girls violently raped by Serb soldiers.


#5. A Bosniak woman mourns over the coffin of her relative during the preparation for a mass burial at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial cemetery on July 10, 2010. 775 bodies found in mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia and DNA-identified within the past 12 months will be reburied on 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. More than 8,000 men and underage boys from the enclave were captured and systematically killed by Bosnian Serb forces in the days after the fall of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, while many women and underage girls were sexually abused and violently gang raped. The victims were shot and interred in mass graves, then reburied haphazardly later in more than 80 sites in a bid to cover up the evidence.