In July 1995, towards the end of a three-year war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica.
Bosnian Muslims on Saturday mark 25 years since the Srebrenica massacre, the worst atrocity on European soil since World War II, with the memorial ceremony sharply reduced as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
A woman prays next to victims' coffins inside the former UN base in Potocari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia.On July 11, 1995, after capturing the ill-fated town, Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in a few days. Radovan Karadzic, another Bosnian Serb wartime political leader, was also sentenced to life in prison in The Hague. The Srebrenica massacre is the only episode of the Bosnian conflict to be described as genocide by the international community.
Several thousand Serbs and Muslims live side by side in impoverished Srebrenica, a lifeless town in eastern Bosnia with just a few shops in its centre.
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