UN sign in Potocari. Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In July 1995, the worst massacre in Europe since World War II took place in the Bosnian silver-mining community of Srebrenica. The civilian Muslim community at Srebrenica, fearing ethnic cleansing by Bosnian Serbs, fled their homes and sought refuge at the nearby UN base of Potočari. But Serbs forces were allowed to enter the refugee camps, where they systematically separated all of the men from the women and children. The women and children were bused away to safety in Tuzla, while the men were divided into groups, forced to dig mass graves, and then massacred. From among as many as 8,000 victims, more than 3,000 have been reburied at the Srebrenica-Potočari Cemetery.
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Location: Potocari, Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Photo credit: © Jasmin Brutus / Alamy / Afripics
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