As the United Nations prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica during the Balkan wars, a senior official has reaffirmed the UN's commitment to help heal the wounds in the town that was the site of a massacre of Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces after they took over the town designated by the Security Council as a "safe area."
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said a new Bosnian Serb report on the 1995 massacre against Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica should lead to action against the perpetrators.
Calling the politics of fear, anger and intolerance one of the great dangers of our time, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today warned that such attitudes could lead to an artificial "clash of civilizations," in which people of different faiths and cultures perceive each other as enemies.
Dismissing a former Bosnian Serb army general’s appeal against his conviction, the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today unanimously confirmed that Bosnian Serb forces committed genocide during the notorious massacre in Srebrenica in July 1995.
The United Nations Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees laid a wreath today at a memorial outside the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, the scene of the worst massacre of the Bosnia war during the early 1990s.
Following ceremonies to mark the sixth anniversary of the tragic massacre of civilians in Srebrenica, the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) today expressed its "deep satisfaction" with the peaceful and respectful manner in which the observances were conducted.
A Bosnian Serb facing genocide charges for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre is scheduled to make his first appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday, the Hague-based court announced today.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) today welcomed the recent detention of an alleged leader of the 1995 massacre against Bosnian Muslims in the town of Srebrenica.
