Srebrenica was the worst massacre in Europe since World War Two Russia has vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have described the Srebrenica massacre as "genocide". Four other members of the council abstained while the remainder voted in favour. The killing of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995 by Bosnian Serb troops was the worst massacre in Europe since World War T
Response: We're not genocide deniers. We just want to uncover the truth about Rwanda and Srebrenica
In his column, George Monbiot attacked our work on Bosnia and Rwanda as "genocide denial" and "revisionism" (Left and libertarian right cohabit in the weird world of the genocide belittlers, 14 June). According to Monbiot, "DNA screening" has "identified the corpses of 6,595" Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica. But DNA does not establish mode or time of death, and the commission investigating these d
Russia threatens veto on UN vote calling Srebrenica 'a crime of genocide'
The Serbian and Bosnian Serb governments had called emergency sessions for Tuesday evening to discuss the draft resolution but the Bosnian Serb meeting was cancelled. The Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik told local media late on Tuesday: “The text of the resolution is so fundamentally bad, that it cannot be corrected. Russia is acting in accordance with the talks we had with them.” The Serbian go
One of his colleagues told the Associated Press that Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was hit in the face by a stone and his glasses were broken Bosnia's presidency has condemned an attack on Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic at a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. It said Mr Vucic had visited the town "in a spirit of reconciliation, intending to pay respect". Mr Vu
How Britain and the US decided to abandon Srebrenica to its fate
Bosnian forensic experts uncover and catalogue bodily remains found in a mass grave in the eastern village of Kamenica, near the town of Zvornik, close to the border with Serbia on 25 July 2002. Photograph: Reuters/CorbisAmerica’s national security adviser, Anthony Lake, told Frasure in a memo that he favoured revising the map. The former Dutch defence minister Joris Voorhoeve recalls a meeting wi
In the summer of 1995, two years after being designated a United Nations Safe Area, the Bosnian town of Srebrenica became the scene of the worst massacre in the Bosnian war. This is an account of the critical days leading up to the killings. 6 - 10 July 1995: The Bosnian Serb Army attacks Srebrenica - within a UN safe area previously held by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Civi
The bombardment of Homs will be judged by history as a massacre comparable to Rwanda or Srebrenica, says a British photographer injured in the attacks. Paul Conroy, 47, told BBC's Newsnight he had witnessed "a systematic slaughter of the civilian population". In all his experience of war zones, he had never seen anything on this level, he said, and in 10 years, the world would be "wringing its han
BBC News - Serbia debates Srebrenica massacre apology (UPDATED AS: Serbian MPs offer apology for Srebrenica massacre)
Serbia's parliament has passed a landmark resolution apologising for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre - Europe's worst atrocity since World War II. The motion, approved by a narrow majority, says Serbia should have done more to prevent the tragedy. It stopped short of calling the Bosnian war killings a genocide. The murder of nearly 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) was carried out by Bosnian Serb forc
The Shadows of Srebrenica
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Dutch peacekeepers forced some Bosniaks out of the UN compound in July 1995 A court in the Netherlands has ruled the Dutch state was responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslims in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The Dutch were in charge of the UN "safe area" when Bosnian Serb forces overran it in 1995 and killed 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys.
BBC News - Dutch fury at US general's gay theory over Srebrenica
Page last updated at 03:52 GMT, Friday, 19 March 2010 Dutch officials have rejected a retired US general's claim that its forces failed at Srebrenica because of poor morale over openly gay soldiers. A defence ministry spokesman dismissed as "complete nonsense" the remarks by John Sheehan, a former Nato commander. Gen Sheehan had been speaking at a US Senate hearing on allowing gay people to serve
One of his colleagues told the Associated Press that Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was hit in the face by a stone and his glasses were broken Serbia's PM Aleksandar Vucic has been chased away by stone-throwing protesters from a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia-Herzegovina. About 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys died at the hands of Bosnian Serb
Dutch state responsible for three Srebrenica deaths, says court | World news | guardian.co.uk
Dutch court rules troops should not have allowed men to leave safe area or fall into the hands of Bosnian Serb forcesAppeal court judges in the Netherlands have ruled that the Dutch state was responsible for the deaths of three Muslim men after the fall of Srebrenica during the Bosnian war, in a verdict that opens the door to compensation claims.Dutch troops were in charge of the UN-declared "safe
Revealed: the role of the west in the runup to Srebrenica’s fall
Eight thousand Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed over four days in July 1995 by Bosnian Serb death squads after they took the besieged town, which had been designated a “safe area” under the protection of UN troops. The act has been declared a genocide by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, and the Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadžic and General Ratko Mladic await verdicts in trials for
Mourners have gathered in Srebrenica to mark 16 years since the massacre of some 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) by Bosnian Serb forces. The remains of 613 victims recovered from mass graves and identified over the past year are being reburied at a nearby memorial centre. The Bosnian Serb commander at Srebrenica, Ratko Mladic, was arrested in May and is on trial at The Hague. He is accused of ord
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