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Thirty years after genocide, Srebrenica has more graves than residents

A Bosniak Muslim woman prays at the grave of a relative, a victim of the Srebrenica genocide, on 10 July, 2025. AP - Armin Durgut

Thirty years on from Europe’s worst atrocity since the Second World War, the Bosnian town of Srebrenica is still marked by empty streets, rows of graves and families who have never stopped waiting. Home to 6,000 people before the war, it now has fewer than 800 residents, as many young people leave in search of a fresh start far from Bosnia’s old divisions.

On 11 July, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in a massacre that international courts later ruled was a genocide.

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