Genocide

Idriz Smajic managed to survive the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995, but was injured and had to have part of one leg amputated because he couldn't get immediate medical help.

The 'Mother's Scarf' art installation, part of the Srebrenica Heroines initiative, will open next month at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre as part of commemorations to mark the 27th anniversary of the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces.

“It is not a place where those who call the Turkish nation perpetrators of massacre & genocide will be able to exist, or look at us straight in the eye”

Belgrade Higher Court acquitted policeman Milan Dumanovic and Mladen Trbovic on Friday of disclosing an official secret by giving a TV interview about secretly recording the Srebrenica commemoration in 2015.

The new memorial room, entitled 'The Lives Behind the Fields of Death', opened on Tuesday at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, with the intention of highlighting survivors' stories and combatting genocide denial.

The actress and TV personality said on ABC’s The View that the Nazi genocide of the Jews was “not about race”

Gideon Greif told Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Tuesday that he will soon produce an addendum to the report on Srebrenica published last July by a commission funded by the government of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska to make clear that around 8,000 people from Srebrenica were killed in July 1995.

Turkey continues to provide shelter for the victims of persecution, oppression, violence and terrorism, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Dec. 9 observing the "International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime" on the sixth anniversary of the U.N.

The Bosnian state court found Miodrag Josipovic, Branimir Tesic, Dragomir Vasic, Danilo Zoljic and Radomir Pantic not guilty on Monday of participation in the partial extermination of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.

"The prosecution has not proved that the defendants had the intent to commit extermination," said presiding judge Minka Kreho.

Unknown perpetrators on Thursday removed a banner with the slogan "Ratko Mladic is a war criminal convicted of genocide" from the building in the Serbian city of Novi Sad which houses the offices of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, LSV political party.