World marks 29th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide

On 11 July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces overran the United Nations-designated “safe haven” of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Directed by their military leader, Ratko Mladic, soldiers separated over 8,000 Muslim Bosniak men and boys from their wives, mothers, and sisters and slaughtered them.

After burying them in mass graves, they later dug them up and scattered their body parts in a bid to hide their war crimes.

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