Srebrenica genocide

Srebrenica massacre or Srebrenica genocide
Part of the Bosnian War
Some of the more than 6,100 gravestones at the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial and Cemetery for the Victims of the 1995 massacre
Srebrenica Srebrenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Location	Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date	11–22 July 1995 (1995-07-22)
Target	Bosniak men and boys
Attack type	Military assault, mass murder, ethnic cleansing, genocide
Deaths	8,373
Perpetrators	Army of Republika Srpska Scorpions paramilitary group

The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide (Bosnian: Masakar u Srebrenici; Genocid u Srebrenici), was the July 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks, mainly men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.

The killings were perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić. The Scorpions, a paramilitary unit from Serbia, who had been part of the Serbian Interior Ministry until 1991, also participated in the massacre. In April 1993 the United Nations (UN) had declared the besieged enclave of Srebrenica—in the Drina Valley of northeastern Bosnia—a "safe area" under UN protection. However, in July 1995, UNPROFOR's 370Dutchbat soldiers in Srebrenica failed to prevent the town's capture by the VRS—and the subsequent massacre.

In 2004, in a unanimous ruling on the case of Prosecutor v. Krstić, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), located in the Hague, ruled that the massacre of the enclave's male inhabitants constituted genocide, a crime under international law. The ruling was also upheld by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2007. The forcible transfer and abuse, of between 25,000 and 30,000 Bosniak women, children and elderly which accompanied the massacre was found to constitute genocide, when accompanied with the killings and separation of the men.