During the invasion of Srebrenica, Bosnian Serb forces killed approximately 8,000 Muslim men and boys on July 17, 1995. The victims' belongings were scattered along the road after the mass execution of the men and boys.

    During the invasion of Srebrenica, Bosnian Serb forces killed approximately 8,000 men and boys from Muslim families on July 17, 1995. The belongings of the Srebrenica massacre victims were scattered along the road after the mass execution of the men and boys. On July 17, 1995, the town of Srebrenica had a majority Bosnian Muslim population.

   The war following the breakup of the former Yugoslavia claimed over 100,000 lives in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995, the majority of whom were Bosnian Muslims. Furthermore, over 2 million people became refugees. The massacre in Srebrenica became one of the darkest chapters of that war.

In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces overran Srebrenica, a UN-protected safe area under Security Council Resolution 819, brutally killing thousands of men and boys there. Approximately 25,000 Bosnian Muslim women, children, and elderly residents who remained in Srebrenica were forcibly removed from this enclave. This constituted the largest massacre in Europe since the Holocaust.

   In 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) recognized the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica by the Army of Republika Srpska as an act of genocide. Only a very small number of cases have been recognized as constituting genocide by competent judicial bodies. In 2015, the United Nations recognized the Srebrenica massacre as genocide, but Russia vetoed the resolution. In March 2022, after Russian war crimes were exposed in Bucha, Ukraine, Russian authorities referred to it as a new Srebrenica.