The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.
It was mainly perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska under Ratko Mladić, though the Serb paramilitary unit Scorpions also participated. The massacre was the first legally recognised genocide in Europe since the end of World War II.
Before the massacre, the United Nations (UN) had declared the besieged enclave of Srebrenica a “safe area” under its protection. A UN Protection Force contingent of 370 lightly armed Dutch soldiers failed to deter the town’s capture and subsequent massacre. A list of people missing or killed during the massacre contains 8,372 names.
Srebrenica mayor Nesib Mandzic recently stated to a Dutch newspaper that Thom Karremans, commander of the Dutch battalion (Dutchbat), had totally forgotten the Moslems whom his force were supposed to protect.
After 5 years of research the Royal Dutch Institute for War Documentation present their report on the Srebrenica disaster with the title Srebrenica, a ‘safe’ area Reconstruction, background, consequences and analysis of the fall of a ‘Safe Area’.
Both the news program Tagesschau and the reportage program Tagesthemen from the German public first TV channel ARD report about the presentation of the report about the Srebrenica massacre.
For these reportages Featurez gave advice, did the research and set-up and planning and organised an interview with one of the former Dutchbat soldiers.