WORLD
November 11, 2004 | From Times Wire Reports
The Bosnian Serb government issued an apology for the 1995 massacre of 7,800 Muslim civilians in Srebrenica, saying it "shares the pain" of the victims' families. The apology came after the government reviewed a Bosnian Serb commission's final report on the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since World War II. The government session was last month, but the conclusions were not immediately made public.
NEWS
April 7, 1993 | CAROL J. WILLIAMS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
In a tragically fitting conclusion to a year that savaged Bosnia's land and soul, rival military commanders broke promises to meet Tuesday and consider an end to the war that has uprooted half the population and left as many as 200,000 dead. The Muslim-led government boycotted U.N.-mediated peace talks in protest of a rebel Serbian offensive against the stricken city of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina. There local authorities again blocked a U.N.
NEWS
April 18, 1993 | STANLEY MEISLER and CAROL J. WILLIAMS, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
The U.N. Security Council, furious over the defiant Serbian aggression in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, brushed aside news of a new cease-fire agreement late Saturday night and clamped new and tighter sanctions on the former Yugoslav federation.
WORLD
April 9, 2005 | From Times Wire Reports
The U.N. tribunal for the former Yugoslavia announced war crimes charges against a Bosnian Serb captain for his alleged role in the violent deaths of more than 7,000 Muslim boys and men in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Capt. Milorad Trbic, former deputy chief of security in the Bosnian Serb army, has been charged with one count of murder in the 1995 massacre in the U.N.-protected enclave. Trbic, 47, assisted in the planning and shooting, his indictment says.
WORLD
December 3, 2003 | From Times Wire Reports
U.N. war crimes judges at The Hague sentenced a Bosnian Serb to 27 years in prison for his confessed role in a 1995 massacre. Ex-army commander Momir Nikolic, 48, wept and covered his face with his hands. Serbian troops killed up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys after overrunning the U.N.-declared "safe area" of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Meanwhile, two Muslim officers went on trial. Retired Gen. Enver Hadzihasanovic, 53, and Amir Kubura, 39, are charged with murder and other offenses.
WORLD
July 12, 2007 | From the Associated Press
Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Hundreds of newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre were reburied Wednesday, their relatives sobbing as the thin green coffins were laid in the ground on the 12th anniversary of the mass wartime killing. More than 30,000 people attended the service, in which a child read aloud the names of the 465 victims identified after being found in the many mass graves around Srebrenica.