Thousands gather for anniversary of Srebrenica genocide
Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world are gathered in Srebrenica to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1995 massacre of more than 8000 Bosniak Muslim men and women, who are considered the only genocide of Europe after the Holocaust.
The newly defined seven victims of the massacre, including two-year-old men, will be heard at a wide, constantly expanding cemetery near Srebrenica, with more than 6000 victims buried in a collective funeral.
Such funerals are organized for the victims of dozens of mass graves in the city every year.
July 11, 1995, the day after the killing of Bosnian Serbian fighters after overturning the East Bosnian settler in the last months of the war in the Balkan country began.
After checking the town, a safe area of the UN, protected during the war, Bosnian Serbian warriors separated Bosniak Muslim men and boys from their families and executed brutally executed in just a few days.
The bodies were later thrown into mass graves around Srebrenica, then dug with bulldozer, and distributed the ruins among other tombs to hide the evidence of war crimes.
The UN General Assembly in 2024 adopted a decision to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide on the July 11th anniversary.
The scores of international authorities and honorables are expected to attend the commemoration ceremonies and funerals on Friday.
On the eve of the anniversary, an exhibition exhibited personal belongings of victims in mass graves for years.
The conflict in Bosnia exploded in a rebellion against the independence of the country’s independence from the old Yugoslavia of the country and exploded to create their own states and eventually unite with neighboring Serbia.
In 1995, before a US peace agreement was reached, more than 100,000 people were killed and millions of people were displaced.
While Bosnia is ethnicly divided, both Bosnia Serbs and neighboring Serbia refuse to admit that the massacre in Srebrenica was a genocide despite the decisions of the two UN courts.
Bosnian Serbian political and military leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic were convicted of others and sentenced to genocide.
Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic called the Srebrenica massacre as a “terrible crime” and expressed his condolences on X.
“We can’t change the past, but we have to change the future,” Vucic said.
