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We report on the mishandling of the crisis by the U.N.’s Bosnia peacekeeping force UNPROFOR/UNPF — from the craven decisions of its field commanders prior to the fall of Srebrenica, to its ...
In July 2015, marking the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the United Nations Security Council put forward a draft resolution to officially condemn the massacre of the 8,000 Bosniak men and boys as a genocide. However, Russia, on behalf of Serbia, vetoed the resolution.
The fall of the town of Srebrenica and its environs to Bosnian Serb forces in early July 1995 made a mockery of the international community’s professed commitment to safeguard regions it...
As the United Nations Security Council failed to adopt a resolution that some of its permanent members called “vital for reconciliation” and others called “divisive,” senior UN officials...
Twenty years ago, in July 1995, in one of the worst massacres in Europe after the Second World War, Bosnian Serb militia under the command of General Ratko Mladić killed about 8000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the vicinity of the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. Combined with the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the massacre came to symbolize the ...
Last month, a court in the Netherlands ruled that the Dutch state was 10 per cent responsible for the deaths of 350 of the men who were killed by Bosnian Serb forces, bringing the actions of the...
At the heart of the international failure in Srebrenica in July 1995 was the inability of the major powers to devise and implement an agreed strategy for ending the defining conflict of the immediate post-Cold War era.
Leading decision makers from more than a dozen countries gathered in The Hague from June 29 to July 1, 2015, to examine the failure of the international community to prevent the fall of the United Nations “safe area” of Srebrenica in July 1995. This failure resulted in the largest massacre in Europe since World War II.
The Srebrenica genocide was the worst atrocity crime on European soil since the Second World War. Twenty-five years later, we pay tribute to the thousands brutally murdered — and pledge to...
Also provides an assessment which analyses the role of the UN Protection Force in Srebrenica, the role of Bosniac forces on the ground, the role of air power, unanswered questions, the role of...