page_title: Srebrenica massacre
section_title: 2003: Srebrenica Genocide Memorial
hierarchical_section_title: Srebrenica massacre / Post-war developments / 2003: Srebrenica Genocide Memorial
caption_attribution_description: English: Wall of names at the Potočari genocide memorial near Srebrenica. Deutsch: Namenstafel an der Völkermord-Gedenkstätte in Potočari in der Nähe von Srebrenica. Türkçe: Srebrenica yakınlarındaki Potoçari'de Srebrenica soykırımı kurbanlarının adlarının yazılı olduğu anıt.
context_page_description: The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosniaks, mainly men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.
  The killings were perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska under the command of Ratko Mladić. The Scorpions, a paramilitary unit from Serbia, who had been part of the Serbian Interior Ministry until 1991, also participated in the massacre. In April 1993 the United Nations had declared the besieged enclave of Srebrenica—in the Drina Valley of northeastern Bosnia—a "safe area" under UN protection. However, the UN failed to both demilitarize the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina within Srebrenica and force the withdrawal of the VRS surrounding Srebrenica. UNPROFOR's 370 Dutchbat soldiers in Srebrenica did not prevent the town's capture by the VRS—nor the subsequent massacre.
context_section_description: On 30 September 2003, former US President Bill Clinton officially opened the Srebrenica Genocide memorial to honour the victims of the genocide. The total cost of the project was around $5.8 million. "We must pay tribute to the innocent lives, many of them children who were snuffed out in what must be called genocidal madness", Clinton said.
caption: Wall of names at the Srebrenica Genocide memorial
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