Bosnian Muslim children were targeted and killed around Srebrenica in 1992, three years before the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Photograph of baby remains excavated from the SUHA MASS GRAVE. Photo source: Foundation Truth for Justice.
Prelude to the Srebrenica Genocide:
Mass murder and ethnic cleansing of Bosniaks in the Srebrenica region during the first three months of the Bosnian War (April-June 1992)
Author: Daniel Toljaga
Bosnian Institute
More than three years before the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, Bosnian Serb nationalists – with the logistical, moral and financial support of Serbia and the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) – destroyed 296 predominantly Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) villages in the region around Srebrenica, forcibly uprooting some 70,000 Bosniaks from their homes and systematically massacring at least 3,166 Bosniaks (documented deaths) including many women, children and the elderly.
It was these massacres that should have alerted the international community to the prospect of genocide when the United Nations-protected enclave eventually fell to Bosnian Serb forces commanded by General Ratko Mladić three years later, in July 1995. Read more >>>
