Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Genocide’s legal limitations: what the Srebrenica massacre can teach us about Gaza

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par Pilar Eirene de Prada, Profesora/Investigadora en Derecho Internacional y RRII, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

This July marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, which took place in a mountainous enclave in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, near the Serbian border.

Between July 6 and 11, 1995, over 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and children where killed by Bosnian Serbs in what the UN had declared a “safe area” under direct protection from blue-helmet peacekeepers. The scenes broadcast by war journalists sent shockwaves through the world, and marked a turning point for the West’s collective consciousness.

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