Srebrenica
Turkish Group Hacks Serbian State Website in Srebrenica Protest
A Turkish group called Cyber Warrior Tim Akincilar hacked the Serbian Public Debt Administration's website on Friday in what appeared to be a protest against Serbia's denial of the Srebrenica genocide.
Candles Lit Outside Serbian Presidency to Commemorate Srebrenica
Activists from the Youth Initiative for Human Rights and other anti-war groups gathered in front of the Serbian presidency building on Sunday evening to light candles to commemorate victims of the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995.
The activists also held up a banner with the slogan "It shouldn't happen to anyone again".
Genocide Denial Condemned as Srebrenica Anniversary Commemorated
Mourners gathered at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre on Sunday for a commemoration of the 26th anniversary of the July 1995 genocide and the burial of 19 more victims of the mass killings of more than 7,000 Bosniak men and boys.
Sarajevans Mourn as Convoy Carries Srebrenica Victims to Funeral
Hundreds of people came to pay their respects as a convoy carrying the remains of 19 victims arrived in Sarajevo before their burial at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre on the 26th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide on June 11.
Scores of Srebrenica Gravesites Remain Abandoned and Unmarked
BIRN's newly-updated database of wartime mass graves shows that few of the 94 sites where Srebrenica victims were buried have been marked, while others have become overgrown or been used as dumps, ploughed for farming or sold as construction sites.
‘They Will Kill Us’: One Woman’s Story of Escape from Srebrenica
Velic had fled to Srebrenica with her husband and children after her home village of Pobudje, near Bratunac, had come under fire.
But when Bosnian Serb forces seized Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, she and her family had to flee again.
"I thought: 'People will not survive, they will kill us.' And so they did," she recalled.
Genocide Oral History Project Launched in Srebrenica
BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Srebrenica Memorial Centre presented the video project 'The Lives Behind the Fields of Death' on Wednesday at a conference in Srebrenica that highlighted the role of oral history in combatting genocide denial and revisionism.
Kosovo Parliament Adopts Resolution Recognising Srebrenica Genocide
Kosovo MPs adopted a resolution on Wednesday officially recognising the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as genocide, only days before the 26th commemoration of the slaughter of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces.
Pristina adopts resolution on Srebrenica
89 deputies voted for the adoption of the resolution, no one was against or abstained, reports the Pristina Reporters.
At the moment when the President of the Assembly, Glauk Konjufca, announced a point on the Draft Resolution on the committed genocide in Srebrenica, the deputies of the Serbian List and Minister Goran Raki left the session.
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North Macedonia Municipality to Install Srebrenica Memorial
The Cair municipality in Skopje has announced ahead of the anniversary of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide on July 11 that it will soon install a memorial commemorating the victims of worst atrocity in post-World War II Europe.