Srebrenica

New report on Srebrenica massacre should spur action against perpetrators - Annan

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.

'Politics of fear' must be overcome by tolerance, Annan says

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.

Srebrenica massacre was genocide, UN tribunal for former Yugoslavia confirms

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.

UN refugee envoy pays visit to Srebrenica massacre memorial in Bosnia

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.