The Cemetery of Potocari-
Where the deaths from the genocide are remembered
and never forgotten
It wasn't until May of 1995, three long years later of the brutal killing and thousands of deaths taken until the first official NATO peacekeeping troops arrive in Sarajevo. Military intervention began as the United States led a massive NATO bombing campaign. They targeted Serbian artillery positions throughout Bosnia. The bombardment continued into October. Serb forceslost ground to Bosnian Muslims who had received weapons from the Islamic world. Eventually half of Bosnia was eventually retaken by Muslim-Croat troops.
Peace negotiations were held in Dayton, Ohio, and an agreement was signed in December 1995. In result of the agreement Bosnia was divided into a Croat-Muslim Federation and Republika Srpska. NATO peace-keeping 'Implementation Force' of 60,000 was deployed to the former Bosnia by a NATO 'Stabilisation Force". In 1996, an election was held and a three-man presidency was formed the representing the main Bosnian groups. Durning the same period of time, Srebrenica was re-inhabited: Serbs moved in to occupy the Muslims' homes. These Serbs were mostly refugees themselves, driven from other parts of Bosnia by Muslims and Croats. Many came from Sarajevo. they had nothing, there were no jobs, not much water, and very few supplies. But yet they had nowhere to go. There was also the Serbian project in Bosnia which had brought about a huge internal displacement of the population from people have not yet recovered.
Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic were both declared war criminals. Radoslav Krstic, a commander working for Mladic, was arrested by NATO troops in December 1998 where he was charged with genocide for his part in the atrocities and slaughtering in Srebrenica. He was prosecuted at the Hague the in the Neverlands. In August of 2001 Krstic was sentenced to 46 years imprisonment. After the trial of Krstic ended another one began for another military commander who was charged with participating in 'a criminal plan and enterprise, the common purpose of which was to detain, capture, summarily execute by firing squad, and bury over 5,000 Muslim men and boys from the Srebrenica enclave, including the exhumation of the victims' bodies and reburial in hidden locations'.
On July 11, 2000, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued a statement saying "'The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations forever..." "I wish to express once again to their families and friends my deepest regret and remorse. Their grief cannot be assuaged and must not be forgotten." and then 3,000 Bosnian Muslims were taken in buses to Srebrenica for a short memorial ceremony.
Slobodan Milosevic had charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Arrested on April 1st in 2001 where he was brought to the Hague in June. there he faced 66 counts of war crimes from the Balkan conflicts. his trial began February 12, 2002, where he represented himself. He was found dead in his cell on 11 March 2006 in the UN war crimes tribunal's detention centre in The Hague.
Some bodies have been found from all of the murdering and some mass graves opened. Identification has has been almost impossible and there are still 20,000 people listed as missing in Bosnia in result of the genocide.
Peace negotiations were held in Dayton, Ohio, and an agreement was signed in December 1995. In result of the agreement Bosnia was divided into a Croat-Muslim Federation and Republika Srpska. NATO peace-keeping 'Implementation Force' of 60,000 was deployed to the former Bosnia by a NATO 'Stabilisation Force". In 1996, an election was held and a three-man presidency was formed the representing the main Bosnian groups. Durning the same period of time, Srebrenica was re-inhabited: Serbs moved in to occupy the Muslims' homes. These Serbs were mostly refugees themselves, driven from other parts of Bosnia by Muslims and Croats. Many came from Sarajevo. they had nothing, there were no jobs, not much water, and very few supplies. But yet they had nowhere to go. There was also the Serbian project in Bosnia which had brought about a huge internal displacement of the population from people have not yet recovered.
Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic were both declared war criminals. Radoslav Krstic, a commander working for Mladic, was arrested by NATO troops in December 1998 where he was charged with genocide for his part in the atrocities and slaughtering in Srebrenica. He was prosecuted at the Hague the in the Neverlands. In August of 2001 Krstic was sentenced to 46 years imprisonment. After the trial of Krstic ended another one began for another military commander who was charged with participating in 'a criminal plan and enterprise, the common purpose of which was to detain, capture, summarily execute by firing squad, and bury over 5,000 Muslim men and boys from the Srebrenica enclave, including the exhumation of the victims' bodies and reburial in hidden locations'.
On July 11, 2000, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued a statement saying "'The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations forever..." "I wish to express once again to their families and friends my deepest regret and remorse. Their grief cannot be assuaged and must not be forgotten." and then 3,000 Bosnian Muslims were taken in buses to Srebrenica for a short memorial ceremony.
Slobodan Milosevic had charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Arrested on April 1st in 2001 where he was brought to the Hague in June. there he faced 66 counts of war crimes from the Balkan conflicts. his trial began February 12, 2002, where he represented himself. He was found dead in his cell on 11 March 2006 in the UN war crimes tribunal's detention centre in The Hague.
Some bodies have been found from all of the murdering and some mass graves opened. Identification has has been almost impossible and there are still 20,000 people listed as missing in Bosnia in result of the genocide.