Tomorrow, July 11, the world will mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide carried out by Serbian forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Srebrenica region.
In July 1995, more than 8,300 Bosniak men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica and surrounding areas.
For the first time last year, July 11 was officially recognized as the International Day of Commemoration of the Genocide in Srebrenica at the United Nations headquarters in New York, following the adoption of a resolution on May 23.
The 2007 ruling by the International Court of Justice in The Hague recognized the Srebrenica massacre as genocide committed by the Army of Republika Srpska. At the time, Srebrenica was a UN-designated safe area.
The same court found Serbia guilty of failing to prevent the genocide and violating its obligation to punish those responsible.
Before this ruling, more than 50 individuals were convicted and sentenced to over 700 years in prison combined for genocide and war crimes related to Srebrenica.
Among them are the former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadžić and the former Bosnian Serb army general Ratko Mladić, both sentenced to life imprisonment.
