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King sends message to mark 30th anniversary of Srebrenica Genocide

The Duchess of Edinburgh is currently on a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Evening Standard · Jul 11, 2025

Graves prepared for Srebrenica victims 30 years after massacre

Fresh graves were dug in Srebrenica for seven recently identified victims of the 1995 massacre, Europe’s only genocide recognised by the UN since World War II, nearly 30 years after their deaths.

Euronews · Jul 11, 2025

Thousands gather on 30th anniversary of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since WWII

Bosnia remains ethnically split

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2025

Remains of 7 newly identified Srebrenica victims will be buried on massacre anniversary

Seven newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia are being laid to rest on the 30th anniversary of the genocide

The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2025

Thousands march in Bosnia for the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre

Nearly 7,000 people have embarked on a peace march through the forests of eastern Bosnia in memory of the thousands of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2025

Srebrenica women bury loved ones but remain haunted by memories of 1995 massacre

Women who survived the Srebrenica massacre find some solace in finding their loved ones in far-away mass graves and burying them at the town's memorial cemetery

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2025

Why have so few atrocities ever been recognised as genocide?

An intense argument is raging over whether what has been happening in Gaza since October 2023 is an act of genocide. It is the subject of a case being heard in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in which South Africa has accused Israel of committing acts of genocide. The…

The Conversation · May 29, 2025

Europe’s worst mass murder since World War II happened at Srebrenica. Gretchen Shirm’s novel witnesses the war crimes trial

Gretchen Shirm was a legal intern in the Hague, the UN’s International Court of Justice, which is the setting for her new novel, Out of The Woods. While Shirm interned in 2006, her novel is set earlier, in 2000. It fictionalises the real trial of Radislav Krstić, relating to a…

The Conversation · May 7, 2025

Bosnian Serb general Krstić says he ‘aided and abetted’ Srebrenica genocide

Confession met with scepticism after other war criminals made similar statements to win early release from prison

The Guardian - UK · Nov 14, 2024

Can visiting genocide memorials make you more empathic?

Each year, people visit museums and memorial sites as part of educational interventions organised around the remembrance of a genocide or an atrocity. Many schools visit a concentration camp as part of Holocaust education, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau. Others travel to memorial sites associated with other genocides, such as the massacre…

The Conversation · Oct 8, 2024