Today we mark 25 years since the Srebrenica genocide in which 8372 Bosniak civilians were brutally murdered. They were killed after Bosnian Serb forces attacked the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica in July 1995.
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Dutch troops failed to act as Serb forces occupied the area, killing about 2,000 men and boys on July 11 alone. Some 15,000 #Srebrenica people fled into the surrounding mountains, but Serb troops hunted down and killed 6,000 of them in the forests.
This was the worst atrocity on European soil since WWII, a mere 50 years after the world said “never again” to the horrors of the Holocaust. Thousands were systematically murdered and buried in mass graves. The victims, mostly Muslim, were selected on the basis of their identity.
