On July 11, 1995, the Srebrenica massacre started during the Bosnian War. This tragic event saw the murder of over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces, making it the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. Srebrenica, a declared UN safe area, fell to the Bosnian Serb Army led by General Ratko Mladić. The massacre was part of a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing against Bosniaks. The international community, including the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), has recognized this atrocity as genocide. The events in Srebrenica remain a painful reminder of the horrors of ethnic conflict and the failure of international protection efforts. #todayinhistory #balkan #war

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