Overview

• Survivors, families and international officials gathered at the Potocari Memorial Centre to bury partial remains of seven newly identified victims of the July 1995 massacre
• Bosnia’s Institute for Missing Persons reports that about 7,000 of the more than 8,000 victims have been identified and interred while nearly 1,000 remain unaccounted for
• The International Court of Justice and the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia have ruled the Srebrenica killings as genocide, securing life sentences for Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic
• Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp apologized for the Netherlands’ failure to protect the UN safe area and acknowledged moral and political responsibility for the atrocity
• Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik and other officials continue to deny that the massacre constituted genocide, deepening ethnic tensions and hindering reconciliation efforts