{"id":76815,"date":"2021-07-14T16:20:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T16:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=76815"},"modified":"2021-07-14T16:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T16:20:19","slug":"bosnia-marks-26th-anniversary-of-srebrenica-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/76815-bosnia-marks-26th-anniversary-of-srebrenica-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosnia marks 26th anniversary of Srebrenica genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/07\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f1\u06f4_\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f5\u06f1-\u06f3\u06f8-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/07\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f1\u06f4_\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f5\u06f1-\u06f3\u06f8-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/07\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f1\u06f4_\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f5\u06f1-\u06f3\u06f8-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/07\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f1\u06f4_\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f5\u06f1-\u06f3\u06f8-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/07\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f1\u06f4_\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f5\u06f1-\u06f3\u06f8-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/07\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f1\u06f4_\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f5\u06f1-\u06f3\u06f8.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Thousands of people in Bosnia and Herzegovina have gathered to commemorate the 1995 Srebrenica massacre against Muslims, Europe\u2019s only acknowledged genocide since World War II, and bury 19 newly identified victims.<br>The execution by Serb forces of more than 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks, most of them men and boys, is being commemorated in a series of events on Sunday, followed by the reburial of victims whose remains were found in mass graves and recently identified through DNA analysis.<br>Twenty-six years after they were murdered, 16 men, two teenage boys and a woman will be laid to rest at a memorial cemetery at the entrance to the eastern town, joining more than 6,600 other massacre victims already reburied there.<br>Newly identified victims are given a dignified burial each year on July 11 \u2014 the anniversary of the day the killing began in 1995.<br>Most of the massacre victims were hunted down and summarily executed as they tried to flee into nearby forest after Srebrenica was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces on July 11, 1995, in the waning days of Bosnia\u2019s 1992-95 fratricidal war.<br>The Srebrenica killings were the bloody crescendo of the war which pitted the country\u2019s three main ethnic factions \u2013 Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks \u2013 against each other after the break-up of Yugoslavia.<br>More than 100,000 people were killed in the conflict before a peace deal was brokered in 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people in Bosnia and Herzegovina have gathered to commemorate the 1995 Srebrenica massacre against Muslims, Europe\u2019s only acknowledged genocide since World War II, and bury 19 newly identified victims.The execution by Serb forces of more than 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks, most of them men and boys, is being commemorated in a series of events &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":76818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,30],"tags":[2448,2447],"class_list":["post-76815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-bosnia","tag-srebrenica"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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