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The Srebrenica massacre, [a] also known as the Srebrenica genocide, [b] [8] was the July 1995 genocidal killing [9] of more than 8,000 [10] Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. [11]
In a statement on 23 September 2008 to the United Nations, Dr. Haris Silajdžić, as head of the Bosnia and Herzegovina delegation to the United Nations 63rd Session of the General Assembly, said that "according to ICRC data, 200 000 people were killed, 12 000 of them children, up to 50 000 women were raped, and 2.2 million were forced to flee ...
The Preliminary List of People Missing or Killed in Srebrenica compiled by the Bosnian Federal Commission of Missing Persons contains 8,373 names. [127] While the overwhelming majority of them were men, some 500 were under 18, [ 128 ] and victims include several dozen women and girls.
On 1 June 1993, 11 people were killed and 133 were wounded [83] in an attack on a football game. On 12 July, twelve people were killed while waiting in line for water. The biggest single loss of life was the first Markale marketplace massacre on 5 February 1994, in which 68 civilians were killed and 200 were wounded.
[2] [4] [8] At least 40 of those killed were from locals from Zalazje. [9] Apart from the killed, there were also 22 Serbs who were reported as missing. The bodies of ten of them were found in a mass grave in June 2011 during a search for Bosniak victims above the settlement of Vidikovac. After their remains were identified, they were buried at ...
An ICRC book published in 2010 cites the total number killed in all of the Balkan wars in the 1990s as "about 140,000 people". [340] In 2012 Amnesty International reported that the fate of an estimated 10,500 people, most of whom were Bosnian Muslims, remained unknown at that time. [341] [342] Bodies of victims are still being unearthed two ...
The RDC established that at least 5,233 Bosnian-Muslim civilians were killed in Srebrenica during the war. [23] Most estimates put the number of Bosniak men and boys killed in the July 1995 massacre at more than 8,000; [ 53 ] the list of Bosniaks killed during this period compiled by the Bosnian Federal Commission of Missing Persons contains ...
The town of Višegrad in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina was seized by Bosnian Serb forces in April 1992 during the first days of the Bosnian War.Bosnian Serb members of the local Territorial Defence (TO), supported by local Bosnian Serb police and some members of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), quickly overcame heavily overmatched local Bosnian Muslim police and reserve police elements ...