Today we mark 25 years since the Srebrenica genocide in which 8372 Bosniak civilians were brutally murdered. They were killed after Bosnian Serb forces attacked the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica in July 1995.#Srebrenica25 ⚪️ pic.twitter.com/5NE5Qa4fLL
— Bosnian History (@BosnianHistory) July 11, 2020
This was the worst atrocity on European soil since WWII, a mere 50 years after the world said “never again” to the horrors of the Holocaust. Thousands were systematically murdered and buried in mass graves. The victims, mostly Muslim, were selected on the basis of their identity. pic.twitter.com/lG2kxkQDMF
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Many men began to leave the forests and surrender after realizing they had no escape. One such man was Ramo Osmanovic, who was forced by Serb soldiers to call his son, Nermin, into surrender. Both father and son were executed. #SrebrenicaGenocide pic.twitter.com/QwXsXgtPQK
— Bosnian History (@BosnianHistory) July 11, 2020
A Bosnian girl visits the grave of her father to let him know that she has just graduated.
8732 fathers, sons, brothers, uncles and grandfathers were slaughtered in #Srebrenica. pic.twitter.com/i2Xc9ViV0d
— Bosnian History (@BosnianHistory) July 11, 2020
This is what life in Srebrenica was like before it fell to Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995.pic.twitter.com/SGEd11dR3E
— Bosnian History (@BosnianHistory) July 11, 2020
