The town was supposed to be a “safe area,” protected by U.N. peacekeepers, but Serb forces massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys there.

The Srebrenica massacre remains the most notorious war crime committed in Europe since World War Two. Bosnian-Serb forces overran Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia, where thousands of Bosniaks, who are mostly Muslim, had taken refuge, believing they were safely under the protection of the United Nations.

Miles de personas de Bosnia y de todo el mundo se reunieron en Srebrenica para conmemorar el 30mo aniversario de una masacre en la que

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Herzegovina, to mark the 30th anniversary of the only acknowledged act of genocide in Europe since World War II.

Now, only fragments of her and fragments of her previous life remain in this world. So, by composing the picture in a way that her son’s and husband’s pictures along with her head are together - the rest of her body is not. I want to convey exactly that message: Only in dreams, when her eyes finally close, does she feel whole again.

Hundreds of Bosnians and local community members gathered at Mohawk Valley Community College on Friday to take part in the fifth annual Srebrenica Remembrance Walk, honoring the victims of the 1995 genocide and marking 30 years since one of the deadliest atrocities in modern European history.