The Latest Breaking News from Srebrenica

Broken glasses, watches, combs and crumpled, faded identification documents

Three decades on, as leaders deny what happened, remains of the thousands killed continue to be identified and buried

Seven newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia are being laid to rest on the 30th anniversary of the genocide

Nearly 7,000 people have embarked on a peace march through the forests of eastern Bosnia in memory of the thousands of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre

Women who survived the Srebrenica massacre find some solace in finding their loved ones in far-away mass graves and burying them at the town's memorial cemetery

An intense argument is raging over whether what has been happening in Gaza since October 2023 is an act of genocide. It is the subject of a case being heard in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in which South Africa has accused Israel of committing acts of genocide. The…

Gretchen Shirm was a legal intern in the Hague, the UN’s International Court of Justice, which is the setting for her new novel, Out of The Woods. While Shirm interned in 2006, her novel is set earlier, in 2000. It fictionalises the real trial of Radislav Krstić, relating to a…

Confession met with scepticism after other war criminals made similar statements to win early release from prison

Each year, people visit museums and memorial sites as part of educational interventions organised around the remembrance of a genocide or an atrocity. Many schools visit a concentration camp as part of Holocaust education, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau. Others travel to memorial sites associated with other genocides, such as the massacre…

Annual commemoration of Srebrenica genocide, denial by Serb officials, international recognition, calls for remembrance and prevention.

Thousands of people commemorate the 1995 genocide two months after the UN created an annual day of remembrance.