The
Srebrenica Massacre, also known as the
Srebrenica Genocide,
refers to the July 1995 killing of more than 8,000
Muslim
Bosniak men and boys, as well as the
ethnic cleansing of 25,000–30,000 refugees in the area of
Srebrenica in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, by units of the
Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of
General Ratko Mladić during the
Bosnian War. A paramilitary unit from
Serbia known as the
Scorpions, officially part of the Serbian Interior Ministry until 1991, also participated in the massacre. In 1993 the
United Nations had declared Srebrenica a "safe area" under UN protection but its Protection Force (
UNPROFOR), represented on the ground by a 400-strong contingent of armed Dutch
peacekeepers, failed to prevent the massacre.
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Late in the afternoon of 11 July General Mladić, accompanied by General Živanović (then Commander of the Drina Corps), General Krstić (then Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Drina Corps) and other Serb Army officers, took a triumphant walk through the empty streets of Srebrenica town. The moment was captured on film by Serbian journalist, Zoran Petrović.
The Dutch soldiers operating under the auspices of the UN have been criticised for their part in failing to protect the Bosniak refugees in the safe haven. Lieutenant-Colonel Karremans was filmed drinking a toast with genocide suspect and Serb general
Ratko Mladić during the bungled negotiations on the fate of civilian population grouped in Potočari.
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