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Today marks the 27th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in which Serb forces systematically killed more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys.

Ramiz Nukic, a survivor, has been searching for remains of victims of the massacre since 2005 ⤵️

This virtual memorial tour serves as a reminder that Srebrenica should not happen again to anyone, anywhere aje.io/xnqpc | #SrebrenicaGenocide

“People often ask us who supported us, who had our back early on. But it was no one, we did it on our own.”

- Sehida Abdurahmanovic, 'Mothers of Srebrenica' ⤵️ aje.io/tpgbpy

Every year, the survivors of the Srebrenica genocide – mostly women – return to mourn the killing of 8,000 mostly Muslim men and boys by Serb forces.

#Srebrenica27 — in pictures ⤵️

“They told us that their only dilemma was whether to kill us there or to slaughter us down below in that stream we passed.”

Emir Bektic, a Srebrenica survivor, recounts Europe’s worst massacre since World War II that took place 27 years ago today ⤵️

The Netherlands has offered its ‘deepest apologies’ for the role played by Dutch peacekeepers in the Srebrenica genocide aje.io/cv4578

On the 27th anniversary of the genocide at Srebrenica, the recently-discovered remains of 50 more victims were laid to rest.

DNA investigators are continuing to search for the remains of more than 8,000 mostly Muslim men and boys who were killed by Serbian forces in 1995 ⤵️