Srebrenica: Twenty years later
Dr Hazim Fazlic is member of the International Expert Team of the Institute for Research of genocide Canada
On July 11, 2015, Bosnia and Herzegovina will commemorate the 20th anniversary of Genocide in Srebrenica. This year 136 newly identified bodies will be buried in the memorial cemetery Potocari, near Srebrenica. So far, 6,930 victims have been identified, while the difficult process of unearthing and identifying the remains of the rest, approximately one thousand people, continues. The Hague’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ruled in 2004 that the massacre of the enclave’s male inhabitants constituted genocide, a crime under international law. The ruling was also upheld by the International Court of Justice in 2007.
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