En julio de 1995, las fuerzas serbias de Bosnia mataron a más de 8.000 musulmanes bosnios que debían estar bajo la protección de la ONU.
¿Cómo ocurrió esta masacre? ¿Y cuáles son sus efectos duraderos?
Myriam Francois-Cerrah lo explica, en menos de dos minutos.
Crédito: BBC News.
¿Cómo ocurrió esta masacre? ¿Y cuáles son sus efectos duraderos?
Myriam Francois-Cerrah lo explica, en menos de dos minutos.
Crédito: BBC News.
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00:00Srebrenica, the scene of the worst mass killing on European soil since World War 2, and part
00:07of what the UN says was a campaign of genocide. But 20 years on, what do we know about what
00:13happened?
00:21July 1995. Tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims had fled a Bosnian Serb army offensive and
00:29were under siege in Srebrenica, today's eastern Bosnia. The area was meant to be a UN safe
00:35zone and was protected by about 600 lightly armed Dutch peacekeepers. But on the 6th July,
00:41the Bosnian Serb army began advancing, taking some peacekeepers hostage and within days
00:47they'd entered Srebrenica itself. The Bosnian Serb army demanded that the Bosnian Muslim
00:54fighters hand over all their weapons in exchange for safety. They then took aside men aged
01:00between 12 and 77 for what they said would be interrogation. The first killings began
01:08just two days later. In all, over 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed in just five days. And
01:17over 23,000 women and children were forcibly deported with reports of widespread torture
01:23and rape. Even now, 20 years on, victims are still being identified and reburied. While
01:31Serbia has apologised for what it said was a crime, it denies that the killings were
01:36a systematic attempt to eradicate a people. In other words, a genocide.