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6-07-2005  Photo Collection  
Srebrenica: ten years on, the nightmare continues
In Bosnia & Herzegovina, thousands of families remain in anguish, not knowing what became of their loved ones after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995. The ICRC and other organizations continue their efforts to discover the truth.

© ICRC / Contact Press Images-N. Danziger / ba-e-00007

In mid-July 1995, in the fourth year of a war that had seen many atrocities and caused great suffering among all communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, thousands of Muslim women and children were forced out of from Srebrenica, in Serb-held territory, to the town of Tuzla. For days, ICRC staff helped the most vulnerable of them to cross the no man’s land separating the front lines and on to a local airfield, where – traumatized – they gave details of missing husbands, brothers, fathers, sons…






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