Part of: GS Prelims and Mains II – International Affairs; Map-based Geography question
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On July 11, 25 years on, commemoration services were held at the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial and Cemetery in remembrance of the victims of the massacre.
In July 1995, approximately 8,000 Muslims, mostly men and boys were killed in Srebrenica, by Bosnian Serb forces led by Commander Ratko Mladić.
These killings were later classified as genocide by international tribunals investigating the massacre.
Do you know?
Srebrenica is a small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina in south-eastern Europe on Balkan Peninsula.
The Bosnian War that occurred between 1992-1995, witnessed a period of displacement and ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats by the Bosnian Serb army and paramilitary forces.
