Nine newly-identified victims were buried at a flower-shaped cemetery near the town, where tall white tombstones mark the graves of 6,643 other victims.
World leaders addressed the ceremony by video link, unable to attend because of coronavirus epidemic. In the summer of 1995, while much of Europe basked in sunshine, the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, for two years a UN-declared "safe haven", was witness to a massacre of shocking savagery, fuelled by ethnic and religious hatred.
To this day, bodies continue to be unearthed, with dozens being found each year. Families of a 1,000 victims are still waiting for their loved ones' remains to be recovered. When it ended in 1995, 100,000 lay dead, and countless women had been subjected to systematic rape. More than half a million people were displaced.
Peacekeepers in the thick of it were, Col Doyle said, "sick and tired of security council resolutions", which were never backed up with the means needed to enforce them.Col Doyle says the UN ignored a hard military reality, with fatal consequences: "Do not threaten to use force unless you are willing to commit."
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