Bosnian Genocide - Any Lessons Learned?

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Following the Holocaust, we vowed “never again”. However, in 1995, 8372 Bosnian Muslims were systematically murdered in the first genocide on European soil since World War II.

On this day – July 11 – 28 years ago, Bosnian Serb forces methodically targeted and murdered thousands of Bosniak boys and men in and around Srebrenica.

In July 1995, more than 8,000 Bosniak males were separated by Serb troops from their wives, mothers and sisters, chased through woods around Srebrenica and killed.

Bosnian Serb soldiers dumped the victims’ bodies in numerous mass graves scattered around the eastern town in an attempt to hide evidence of the crime. Over 20,000 girls & women were repeatedly raped.

Yet no lessons have been learnt from the horrors of Srebrenica?

The War in Ukraine, and since 2014, the Chinese government has targeted the Muslim Uyghur population of Xinjiang in a systematic campaign of cultural vandalism, imprisonment, and forced sterilisation.