Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday marks the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at the hands of Bosnian Serb forces. People from across the nation and elsewhere are gathering near the eastern Bosnian town — the site of Europe’s worst case of mass murder since World War II. The central event […]
Bosnia Marks 17th Anniversary of Srebrenica Massacre of Muslims
Posted July 10th, 2012 at 8:55 pm (UTC-5)
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Bosnia Marks 17th Anniversary of Srebrenica Massacre
Posted July 10th, 2012 at 7:15 pm (UTC-5)
Bosnia-Herzegovina is set to mark the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre of thousands of Muslim men and boys at the hands of Bosnian Serb forces. People from across the nation and elsewhere are gathering near the eastern Bosnian town where the central commemoration is to take place Wednesday. The central event will be the […]
Prosecution Opens Case Against Bosnian Wartime Commander Monday
Posted July 8th, 2012 at 5:15 pm (UTC-5)
United Nations prosecutors will open their case against Bosnian Serb wartime commander Ratko Mladic on Monday, with their first witness testifying in his war crimes trial. Bosnian Muslim Elvedin Pasic will tell the court in The Hague how he survived the execution of 150 men by Bosnian Serb troops in November 1992 in the northern […]
40,000 Remember 1995 Srebrenica Massacre
Posted July 11th, 2011 at 5:15 pm (UTC-5)
An estimated 40,000 people gathered in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina on Monday to mark the 16th anniversary of Europe’s worst civilian massacre since World War Two. This year’s anniversary came just weeks after the arrest of the Srebrenica massacre’s alleged organizer — former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, who is in jail awaiting trial for genocide. […]
Dutch Court Rules in Favor of Srebrenica Victims
Posted July 5th, 2011 at 6:40 am (UTC-5)
An appeals court in the Netherlands has ruled that the Dutch state is responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslims during the 1995 massacre in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica. The court said the Dutch United Nations forces, who were guarding the region at the time as part of a U.N. “safe zone,” […]
