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Siege of Srebrenica
Part of the Bosnian War

A panorama of the town of Srebrenica
Date9 May 1992 – 11 July 1995
Location
Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
44°06′15″N 19°17′50″E / 44.10417°N 19.29722°E / 44.10417; 19.29722
Result Serb victory
Territorial
changes
Republika Srpska captures the Srebrenica enclave
Belligerents

Yugoslav People's Army (1992)


Siege of Srebrenica Army of Republika Srpska (1992–95)
Siege of Srebrenica Serb Volunteer Guard (1992, 1995)
Scorpions Scorpions paramilitary unit (1995)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Police, volunteers and paramilitaries from Yugoslavia (1995)
Siege of Srebrenica Greek volunteers (1993–95)
Siege of Srebrenica Russian volunteers (1995)
Siege of Srebrenica Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
NATO NATO (1995)
Commanders and leaders
Republika Srpska Ratko Mladić
Republika Srpska Radislav Krstić
Republika Srpska Zdravko Tolimir
Republika Srpska Milorad Pelemiš
Siege of Srebrenica Naser Orić (May 1992 – April 1995)
Siege of Srebrenica Ramiz Bećirović (WIA) (April–July 1995)
Strength
Siege of Srebrenica ~1,500 soldiers (before Krivaja '95)
Siege of Srebrenica 3,000 soldiers (during Krivaja '95)
Siege of Srebrenica ~6,000 soldiers
NATO Air Support
Casualties and losses
Total: 9,377 war-related deaths in the Srebrenica municipality (1992–1995)[1]

The siege of Srebrenica (Serbo-Croatian: Opsada Srebrenice, Опсада Сребреницe) was a three-year siege of the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina which lasted from April 1992 to July 1995 during the Bosnian War. Initially assaulted by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and the Serbian Volunteer Guard (SDG), the town was encircled by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) in May 1992, starting a brutal siege which was to last for the majority of the Bosnian War. In June 1995, the commander of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) in the enclave, Naser Orić, left Srebrenica and fled to the town of Tuzla. He was subsequently replaced by his deputy, Major Ramiz Bećirović.

In July 1995, Srebrenica fell to the combined forces of the Republika Srpska and numerous paramilitary formations which included hundreds of Greek and Russian volunteers in what was codenamed Operation Krivaja '95 (Serbo-Croatian: Operacija Krivaja '95, Операција Криваја '95). The subsequent massacre of the town's male population led to the deaths of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys, and is considered the largest act of mass murder in Europe since the end of World War II. It was judged to have been a crime of genocide by international criminal courts. As a result, VRS General Radislav Krstić was found guilty by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of murder, persecution and aiding and abetting genocide, while VRS General Zdravko Tolimir was also convicted of genocide. Both men were sentenced to life imprisonment. One of the indictments against Ratko Mladić, the commander of the VRS during the war, is for the massacre in Srebrenica. The commander of Bosniak forces in the enclave, Naser Orić, was found guilty of failing to prevent the mistreatment of VRS prisoners held in Srebrenica between September 1992 and March 1993. However, his conviction was overturned in 2008.

  1. ^ Research and Documentation Center, "Human Losses in Bosnia-Herzegovina 1991-1995 Part I, pp. 173–174. | http://www.mnemos.ba/en/home/Download

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