Over several days following the fall on 11 July 1995 of the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica to forces led by wartime Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were summarily executed in what has been described as the single worst atrocity in Europe since the end of World War II.
Tokom nekoliko dana posle zauzimanja “Zaštićene zone UN” Srebrenice 11. jula 1995. od strane snaga bosanskih Srba predvođenih bivšim ratnim komandantom vojske RS Ratkom Mladićem, nasumično je pobijeno oko osam hiljada bosanskih Muslimana i mladića. To je opisano kao najgori pojedinačni zločin u Evropi od završetka Drugog svetskog rata.