It has been 30 years since the army of the self-declared Republika
Srpska entity committed genocide against the Muslim population based
in Srebrenica in July 1995. With more than 8,000 known victims of the
massacres, the remains of around seven thousand people have been
identified. At the Memorial Center Srebrenica, 6,765 victims of the
genocide have been buried so far.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY),
the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and courts in Serbia have
sentenced more than fifty individuals to over 700 years in prison for
crimes committed in Srebrenica. Of the twenty ICTY verdicts for crimes
committed in Srebrenica, seven include convictions for the crime of
genocide. Since 2021 genocide denial is punishable under the Criminal
Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
So far, 94 mass graves have been found in the area around Srebrenica:
primary, secondary, and sometimes tertiary, in which the Bosnian Serb
soldiers buried Bosniaks after executing them.
Although the courts have handed down a lot of verdicts, many
perpetrators of the genocide have not been brought to justice.
Edited by Pete Baumgartner
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