Thousands of Bosnian Muslims commemorated the 27th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide. The memory of this massacre, which was called “genocide” by a United Nations resolution in 2015, coincided with the burial of the remains of 50 people, who were identified, in the cemetery “Memorial Center Potokar”, where 6671 victims are buried.

“It is Europe’s duty more than ever to remember the Srebrenica genocide,” said EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell and European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Policy Oliver Varhelyi on the anniversary of this massacre, “to defend peace, human dignity and universal values.

“In Srebrenica, Europe failed and we faced our shame,” two European officials said in speeches on the massacre.

Meanwhile, the Bosnian Institute of Missing Persons said in a statement that “the question of searching for skeletal remains has become very rare in recent years, while the search for 1,200 victims is still ongoing.”

It is worth noting that units of the Serbian army, led by Ratko Mladic, carried out a massive offensive against the Muslims of the city of Srebrenica from July 11 to 22, 1995, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a result of which 8372 people were killed. He was killed, mostly by old people and children, in a crime that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia considered “genocide”.

On November 22, 2017, the International Criminal Court sentenced Serbian General Ratko Mladic to life imprisonment and found him guilty of war crimes and genocide during the Bosnian war.