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150,000 Mourners Bury New Srebrenica Remains Despite Persistent Denial

International teams have planned 89 more exhumations to identify over a thousand missing victims.

Mujeres bosnias rezan ante los restos de víctimas de la masacre de Srebrenica de 1995 y que serán enterrados este viernes en el Centro Memorial de Potocari, en Visoko.
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Overview

  • International tribunals have legally affirmed that Serb forces killed at least 8,372 Bosniak Muslims in Srebrenica and designated the atrocity as genocide.
  • More than a thousand victims still await recovery after three decades of identification work by the International Commission on Missing Persons.
  • The deliberate fragmentation and transfer of remains to secondary and tertiary graves by Bosnian Serb forces has complicated exhumation efforts.
  • Survivors who were children at the time of the massacre continue to face enduring psychological trauma and social scars from the violence.
  • Political leaders in Republika Srpska and Serbia have increased denial and glorification of convicted perpetrators, hindering prospects for peace and reconciliation.