🔴 Srebrenica Genocide ➝ On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces under Ratko Mladic captured Srebrenica, a town declared a UN-protected safe area. ➝ Thousands of Bosniak civilians who sought refuge at the Dutch UN peacekeeper base were systematically handed over to the invading forces. ➝ While women and children were forcibly sent to Bosniak-controlled territory, at least 8,372 Bosniak men and boys were brutally executed in forests, factories, and warehouses ➝ To hide the evidence of this massive atrocity, the perpetrators buried the victims in dozens of mass graves scattered throughout the region ➝ In 2007, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) officially ruled this systematic massacre as a genocide, based on extensive tribunal evidence ➝ Every year on July 11, the remains of victims recovered from these hidden sites and identified through DNA analysis are laid to rest at the Potocari Memorial Cemetery ➝ So far, 6,772 victims have been buried at the Potocari memorial site, alo...