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The Srebrenica Genocide
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In July 1995, forces of the Army of Republika Srpska under General Ratko Mladic overran the United Nations declared safe area of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Men and boys were separated from women, children and the elderly, and more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslims were systematically killed over the following days while the rest of the population was forcibly transported out of the enclave. International criminal tribunals have repeatedly found the killings to constitute genocide.
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Death TollThe figure inscribed at the Potocari Memorial, 8,372, noted on the memorial itself as "not final". The International Commission on Missing Persons own current assessment describes the toll as just over 8,000, with between 8,000 and 8,100 having gone missing from the fall of the enclave, so the two figures reflect an evolving identification count rather than a genuine scholarly dispute over scale. Displaced (Low Estimate)Accounts of the number of Bosniak women, children and elderly forcibly transported out of Srebrenica in July 1995 vary between roughly 25,000 and 30,000 across UN and tribunal sources; this atlas records both ends of the commonly cited range rather than a single number no source has settled on. Displaced (High Estimate)See displaced-min. The same range of forcibly transported Bosniak women, children and elderly, commonly cited as 25,000 to 30,000 across UN and International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia accounts of the July 1995 expulsion. The Event
When It Happened11 to approximately 22 July 1995 1 Victim GroupBosniak Muslim men and boys of the Srebrenica enclave, a United Nations declared safe area in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 Perpetrator RegimeThe Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), the Bosnian Serb force commanded by General Ratko Mladic, acting under the political leadership of Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadzic 1 Consequences
Death TollThe International Commission on Missing Persons describes the killings as the murder of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys. Using DNA and non-DNA methods, ICMP had identified 7,017 of the victims by its most recently published tally, over ninety percent of the estimated total, from remains recovered across multiple mass graves used to conceal the killings; identification work on the remainder continues. Status
Official Recognition Recognition BasisThe International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia found genocide occurred at Srebrenica across multiple prosecutions: the 2001 trial verdict against General Radislav Krstic, upheld on appeal in 2004 as the tribunal's first legal characterization of the killings as genocide, and the later prosecutions of Vujadin Popovic and six co-accused and of Zdravko Tolimir, both of which reaffirmed the finding. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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