Srebrenica

Question 1

What was the Srebrenica massacre?

Answer 1

July 1995

Genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Musilm Bosniaks

Mostly men and boys

Took place in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian war

Question 2

Who was responsible for the massacre?

Answer 2

1. VRS: Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska (Area of Bosnia taken over by the Bosnian Serbs)
   
   1. Commanded by General Mladic
2. The Scorpions (paramilitary unit from Serbia)

Question 3

How did the UN play a part in the massacre?

Answer 3

April 1993 declared Srebrenica a ‘safe area’ under UN protection

July 1995 370 UN soldiers failed to prevent capture by the VRS and massacre

Question 4

What other atrocities accompanied the killings?

Answer 4

The forcible transfer of 25,000 - 30,000 Bosniak women, children, and elderly

Question 5

What had happened in the same area between April 1992 and March 1993?

Answer 5

More massacres:

Bosnian Serb nationalists backed by the Serbia and Yugoslav People’s Army

• Destroyed 296 predominantly Bosniak villages
• Forcibly uprooted 70,000
• Systematically massacred more than 3,100

Question 6

What happened in March 1993 in Srbrenica?

Answer 6

Serb soldiers of the ‘Red Berets’ lay seige to Srebrenica

• Starved them
• Killed them

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