In July 1995, during the Bosnian War, Bosnian Serb forces under General Ratko Mladić overran the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, a United Nations safe area defended only by lightly armed Dutch peacekeepers. Over the following days more than eight thousand Bosniak men and boys were systematically killed, while tens of thousands of women, children and elderly people were expelled. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice both ruled that these killings amounted to genocide. Mladić and the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić were later convicted, and the memorial and cemetery at Potočari now hold the identified victims, whose remains are still being recovered from mass graves.
Before and after
- 25 May 1995Tuzla massacre
- from 25 May 1995 to 26 May 1995May 1995 Pale air strikes
- 8 June 1995Creation of PHP
- 24 June 1995Nelson Mandela presents the Rugby World Cup to South Africa's captain
- July 1995Srebrenica massacre
- 17 July 1995The Global Positioning System reaches full operational capability
- from 21 July 1995 to 23 March 1996Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
- 23 July 1995Discovery of Comet Hale-Bopp
- from 25 July 1995 to 29 July 1995Operation Summer '95
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