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).

09 May, 2011

SREBRENICA. 1995. 2011. (PHOTOS)

In this July 14, 1995 AP file photo, refugees and survivors of the Srebrenica massacre from the overrun U.N. safe haven enclave of Srebrenica who had spent the night outdoors gather outside the U.N. base at Tuzla airport. ↓


An expert of the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute examines personal items found in mass graves around the eastern town of Srebrenica, in the Institute's laboratory in Tuzla, 140 kms north of Sarajevo, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. Often these type of things are the only memorabilia relatives of the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre can have of their lost relatives, but many items used as evidence in war crimes are sometimes destroyed because of lack of storage space. ↓


An expert of the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute examines personal items found in mass graves around the eastern town of Srebrenica, in the Institute's laboratory in Tuzla, 140 kms north of Sarajevo, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. Often these type of things are the only memorabilia relatives of the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre can have of their lost relatives, but many items used as evidence in war crimes are sometimes destroyed because of lack of storage space. ↓



Habiba Masic, 56, reacts moments after receiving a phone call from a DNA lab informing her that her two sons, killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, have been identified, in Tuzla, 140 kms north of Sarajevo, on Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011. Three years ago experts found parts of one of her boys in a mass grave but DNA analysis could not determine which one it was until the other was found. On Tuesday, the lab informed Masic that her other son's remains had also been found and that both were now identified. Over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were systematically executed after Serb forces overran the east Bosnian town of Srebrenica by the end of the 1992-95 war. Their bodies were thrown into mass graves but as the crime became known the perpetrators tried to hide the evidence by relocating victims' remains using heavy machinery, and fragments of the dismembered bodies are often found at several sites. ↓


posted by Srebrenica Genocide at 7:26 PM