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Men mourn beside the coffins of their relatives, victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, ahead of the mass burial in Potocari, Bosnia, Thursday, July 10, 2025.

Video. Graves prepared for Srebrenica victims 30 years after massacre

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Fresh graves were dug in Srebrenica for seven recently identified victims of the 1995 massacre, Europe’s only genocide recognised by the UN since World War II, nearly 30 years after their deaths.

As every year on 11 July, Srebrenica mourns, not with a loud ceremony, but with quiet insistence on remembrance.

More than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed in 1995 after Bosnian Serb forces overran what had been declared a safe area. Many victims were buried in mass graves, their remains identified and reburied over the years.

The massacre, Europe’s only recognised genocide by the UN since World War II, took place in a UN-protected zone.

A new exhibition, Lives Behind the Fields of Death, was opened on Thursday, telling the personal stories of victims through items recovered from mass graves.

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