Aljazeera Report 11th July 2021

Srebrenica genocide survivor, ‘It will happen to us again’ With genocide denial rife in the region, a Bosniak survivor of the atrocities in Srebrenica fears future killings.

Escape to Srebrenica

Between 1992 and 1995, Bosnia and Herzegovina was under attack by Serb and Croat forces aiming to carve the country up into a Greater Serbia and a Greater Croatia, respectively. Some 100,000 people were killed.

Bosnian Serb forces began attacking villages, towns and cities in Bosnia in the spring of 1992, with the goal to “ethnically cleanse” non-Serbs from the region.

Genocide denial

Several thousand Serbs and Bosniaks continue to live in the impoverished town of Srebrenica. The town was described as a “dead city” today, with no prospects.

While over 26 years have passed since the genocide, survivors are still battling against widespread Serbian denial of historical facts, confirmed numerous times by international courts in The Hague.

The latest Srebrenica Genocide Denial report (PDF) published by the Srebrenica Memorial Center identified at least 234 instances of genocide denial.

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Is Bosnia Facing Another Civil War?

December 2022 Balkans Insight

At the end of February 2022, many people in Bosnia and Herzegovina were reliving memories of over 30 years ago. While the Kremlin was rolling its tanks into Ukraine, Bosnians were afraid of a similar scenario repeating itself in their own country.

Their fears were fed by the continuing secessionist rhetoric of Bosnian Serb political leader Milorad Dodik after the government of Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska threatened to quit the state-level tax administration, judiciary, medical authority and army.

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