US EditionBosnians honour Srebrenica genocide victims 30 years on
REPUBLIKA SRPSKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JUL 11 – King Charles III and the Duchess of Edinburgh honor victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide where over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed, emphasizing justice and remembrance.
- On July 11, 2025, thousands gathered in Srebrenica, Bosnia, to commemorate three decades since the 1995 genocide in which more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed.
- The killings occurred after Bosnian Serb forces overran the UN-protected enclave amid Yugoslavia’s breakup, separating and executing Bosniak men and boys in July 1995.
- Commemoration events included funerals for newly identified victims, speeches by dignitaries such as the Duchess of Edinburgh, and messages from King Charles emphasizing justice and memory.
- Denis Becirovic condemned genocide denial as "illogical, immoral, and unacceptable," while Serbia’s President Vucic called the massacre a "terrible crime" but avoided the term genocide.
- The anniversary highlighted ongoing efforts to find remains and seek justice, acknowledging failures to prevent the atrocity and stressing the need for reconciliation and peace in Bosnia.
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A woman cries in front of a tombstone in Srebrenica cemetery, where thousands of Bosnians gathered yesterday on the 30th anniversary of the massacre of more than 8,000 men and children committed by Bosnian armed forces, on 11 July 1995, in the last months of the inter-ethnic war in the Balkan country. Yesterday, the remains of seven victims of that massacre, rescued from mass graves and recently identified, were buried at a collective funeral in…
BBC World Service - Newshour, Srebrenica revisited: 30 years on from the worst massacre of the Balkan wars
On this day in 1995, at the height of the war in the former Yugoslavia, the Bosnian Serb army captured what was supposedly the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica. In the ensuing days, thousands of Bosnian Muslim women were raped. 8000 Muslim men and boys were murdered. It was Europe's worst massacre since the Second World War. Also in the programme: a Liberian historian on whether his fellow citizens should be outraged by President Trump's remarking o…
Thousands of Bosniaks on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serbs at a cemetery near Srebrenica. The massacre was part of a brutal conflict in Bosnia that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia from 1992 to 1995. The remains of seven more identified victims were also buried at the cemetery on Friday. The remains of about a thousand victims have still not been found.
Thousands gather in Srebrenica to mark 30 years since genocide
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina: Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world gathered in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of a massacre there of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim boys and men — an atrocity that has been acknowledged as Europe’s only genocide after the Holocaust. Seven newly identified victims of the 1995 massacre, including two 19-year-old men,
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