the Council of Europe (CE) called for the official recognition on July 11 as an international day of memory of the victims of the genocide in Srebrenitsa.
The Commissioner of the Council of Europe on Human Rights Dunya Miyatovich made a corresponding initiative.
The European Commissioner recalled that 8,372 Bosnitsa were killed during the genocide in Srebrenitsa.
Miyatovich emphasized that this tragic event is one of the most gloomy pages in European history.
She noted that the reprisal against Muslims in Srebrenitsa was recognized as a series of courts.
Unfortunately, many people do not know about this genocide, and some even deny it. This is an insult to the memory of the victims [genocide] and a serious threat to the world and justice in the region. Mother Srebrenitsa is calling for justice for 28 years, ”the politician added.
Genocide in the Srebrenitsa
Residents of Bosnia and Herzegovina on July 11 will post the memory of more than 8 thousand Muslims killed in 1995 in the city of Srebrenitsa.
Genocide in Srebrenitsa is considered the largest humanitarian catastrophe in Europe since the Second World War.
Every year on July 11, the remains of the victims of the genocide after the identification procedure of personality indulge in the earth in the cemetery in the city of Potocari. This year, the remains of another 19 Bosnians will be reburied, the Bosnian Institute for the missing reports.
UN Security Council in April 1993 declared a Srebrenitsa zone of security.
However, this did not prevent mass massacre. The city was captured on July 11, 1995 by the army of Bosnian Serbs, led by Ratko Mladic, who later sentenced by the International Tribunal in The Hague to life imprisonment for genocide and crimes against humanity.
The peaceful Bosnians tried to find protection from the Dutch peacekeepers from the UN, but the latter passed them to the Serbs.
more than 8 thousand Bosnians died in a wooded area, in factories and in warehouses.
The bodies of the killed Bosnians were buried in mass burials.