In pictures: 25 years since Europe's only post-WWII genocide

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Here are a few images from Bosnia and Herzegovina, where ceremonies will be held to mark 25th anniversary of SrebrenicaGenocide

, but every year, more bodies are found and reburied, and every year the survivors, mostly women, return to commemorate their fathers and brothers, husbands and sons.

“They found just a few of his bones, but my mother and I decided to bury him this year so we will know where his grave is, where to go to say a prayer, to find some peace,” said his son Bahrudin, who himself survived the massacre by fleeing through the woods. What took place in Srebrenica was a mark of shame for the international community as the town had been declared a UN “safe haven” for civilians in 1993.

Serb troops took around 2,000 men and boys from the compound for execution while taking the women and girls to Bosnian government-held territory. Meanwhile, in the woods around Srebrenica, Serb soldiers hunted the fleeing Bosniaks, as Bosnian Muslims are otherwise known, killing them one by one.

 

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