Srebrenica and Dayton
Genocide in a UN safe area
In July 1995 Bosnian Serb forces murdered around 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in Srebrenica, a UN-declared safe area under Dutch protection. The Dayton accords then froze the country into ethnic partition.
Damage
Genocide at Srebrenica and Dayton trusteeship froze Bosnia under international supervision.
Lives lost
Over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys murdered at Srebrenica alone
Record Points
- The enclave was designated a UN safe area, but its Dutch battalion was left under-equipped and stood aside.
- Over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were executed and buried in mass graves that were later moved to hide the crime.
- International courts have ruled the massacre a genocide.
- The 1995 Dayton agreement stopped the war but entrenched ethnic division into the permanent structure of the state.
- A Dutch government fell in 2002 over the state's share of responsibility for the failure.