DON'T FORGET SREBRENICA. DON'T FORGET BOSNIA.

PHOTO: On July 11, Bosnian Serbs troops, under the command of General Ratko Mladic, captured the eastern enclave and U.N. "safe area" of Srebrenica, systematically murdering 8,372 Bosniak boys and men, brutally raping hundreds of women and underage girls, and -- under the auspices of the United Nations -- expelling 25,000-30,000 women in a massive ethnic cleansing campaign. Photo taken by David Turnley.

The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The International Criminal Tribunal concluded — in at least five cases — that the Bosnian war was NOT a ‘civil war’ but an international armed conflict involving Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, and NATO.

The war involved several sides. The main belligerents were the forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and those of the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat entities within Bosnia and Herzegovina — ‘Republika Srpska’ and ‘Herzeg-Bosnia’. Both ‘para-states’ enjoyed substantial political and military backing (overall control) from Serbia and Croatia respectively. NATO was involved in air-strikes against the Serbs. Serbs committed at least 90 per cent of all war crimes in the Bosnian war, according to extensively documented report by the Central Intelligence Agency from 1995.

There are four legally validated genocides that occurred in Bosnia-Herzegovina, other than Srebrenica. The Bosnian Genocide is the event referring to brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing of at least 500,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) coupled with the killings of 65,000 to 75,000 Bosniaks during the 1992-95 war of Serbian aggression.

The three international judgments confirming that genocide, indeed did occur in Bosnia, other than Srebrenica, include: Prosecutor v Nikola Jorgic (Doboj region), Prosecutor v Novislav Djajic [Dzajic] (Foča region), Prosecutor v Djuradj Kuslic [Kusljic] (Kotor Varos) and Prosecutor v Maksim Sokolovic (Kalesija, Zvornik region). All three cases were tried in Germany — at the request of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) — to ease caseload of the ongoing trials at the Hague.