On Monday, Srebrenica commemorates the 21st anniversary of genocide committed by the Serb forces in 1995. During the ceremony, remains of 127 victims of massacre are planning to be buried.
Relatives of victims and mourners gathered today in Potocari, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina to pay tribute to the 8,000 victims of the massacre during the Balkans conflict. The President of the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals Theodor Meron and the mayor of Srebrenica Camil Durakovic will participate in the commemoration.
In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic carried out mass killings of Bosnian Muslim men and teenage boys in Srebrenica enclave, and expelled 20,000 civilians were from the area.
The genocide took place despite the UN protection of the area, which attracted sharp criticism of the organisation. In 2015, the UK drafted a UN resolution condemning the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as a “crime of genocide”.
