SREBRENICA

In the early days of July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces under the command of Ratko Mladic began attacking and overrunning the UN protected safe area of Srebrenica. The 110 Dutch UN troops that were stationed there to protect the enclave stood by as Mladic’s men swept through. The majority of the men in Srebrenica, up to 20,000 of them, decided to try to escape the enclave and set off through the hills in an attempt to reach Tuzla, which was under the control of Bosnian Government forces. The path they took later became known as the ‘road of death’. Many thousands were killed along the route as Serb forces ambushed and shelled the column. Those who stayed behind gathered near the Dutch base in Potocari and it was here that Mladic’s men separated the remaining men and boys from the women and marched them away to be shot under the noses of the Dutch troops.

It was the worst atrocity of the Balkan wars and the effects of the massacre are still being felt today. Thousands of bodies remain missing,

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