In July 1995, members of the army of Republika Srpska under the command of General Ratko Mladic, accompanied by members of Scorpions, a paramilitary unit from Serbia, killed more than 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in Srebrenica and its vicinity.

Although the United Nations had declared that Srebrenica was a UN-protected area, that did not prevent this massacre, though armed Dutch personnel were present at that time.
In 2004, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ruled in the case of “Prosecutor v. Krstic” that the Srebrenica massacre was genocide.
Commemoration of the Srebrnica massacre is held every year on July 11, when newly identified bodies are buried in presence of family members and citizens who come to pay their respect to the victims of this tragic event.
In January 2009, the European Parliament overwhelmingly adopted a resolution proclaiming the 11th of July a Day of Commemoration of the Srebrenica Genocide throughout the European Union. A group of human rights organizations in Serbia will gather on the 11th of each month to put pressure on the Serbian President to follow the example of the European Parliament and declare the July 11 the Day of Commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide.