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10 Years After the Massacre | Srebrenica, Bosnia | 07.05(16 images)
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In July of 1995, Serb and Bosnian Serb paramilitary forces attacked the UN "safe haven" of Srebrenica and killed nearly 8,000 people, making the massacre the worst act of mass killing in Europe since World War Two. Ten years on, the bodies are still being found.
  • Bosnian Muslims mourn over the body of a loved one, one of 610 newly-identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre, in which nearly 8,000 men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb and Serb paramilitary forces, on July 10, 2005, one day before the 10th anniversary of the massacre. A total of approximately 2,000 of the nearly 8,000 victims of the massacre have been identified by the ICMP, and another 3,000 body bags, which may contain partial remains or the remains of several people, await identification. By photographer Geoffrey King
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  • More than 1,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were taken to this warehouse in Kravica and killed by Serb paramilitaries during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Of the nearly 8,000 victims of the massacre, approximately 2,000 have been identified, and a further 3,000 body bags await identification. On July 11, 2005, 610 newly identified victims were buried in individual graves in Potocari, near Srebrenica. By photographer Geoffrey King
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  • A blast mark inside the Potocari battery factory, where killings and the separation of men and boys from their loved ones began during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed by Serb and Bosnian Serb paramilitaries. By photographer Geoffrey King
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  • Workers labor to dig graves for 610 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslims, mostly men and boys, were killed by Bosnian Serb and Serb paramilitary forces. The bodies have been exhumed from mass and secondary graves and identified by the International Commission on Missing Persons. Approximately 2,000 victims of the massacre have been identified by the ICMP, and another 3,000 body bags, which may contain partial remains or the remains of several people, await processing. The memorial cemetary is a contentious symbol in Serb-dominated Srebrenica: just days before the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the massacre by tens of thousands of mourners, two large bombs were found here by EUFOR and removed by local police. By photographer Geoffrey King
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  • Workers labor to dig graves for 610 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslims, mostly men and boys, were killed by Bosnian Serb and Serb paramilitary forces. The bodies have been exhumed from mass and secondary graves and identified by the International Commission on Missing Persons. Approximately 2,000 victims of the massacre have been identified by the ICMP, and another 3,000 body bags, which may contain partial remains or the remains of several people, await processing. The memorial cemetary is a contentious symbol in Serb-dominated Srebrenica: just days before the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the massacre by tens of thousands of mourners, two large bombs were found here by EUFOR and removed by local police. By photographer Geoffrey King
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  • A bullet hole in a window of the International Commission on Missing Persons' Identification Coordination Division, reflected in a poster captioned, "Where is my father?" By photographer Geoffrey King
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  • A Bosnian Muslim woman searches for a loved one killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which nearly 8,000 men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb and Serb paramilitary forces. Approximately 2,000 of the nearly 8,000 victims of the massacre have been identified by the ICMP, and another 3,000 body bags, which may contain partial remains or the remains of several people, await identification. 610 newly-identified bodies were buried on July 11, 2005, the 10th anniversary of the massacre. By photographer Geoffrey King
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  • A Bosnian Muslim woman grieves after finding the body of a loved one killed in the Srebrenica massacre, in which nearly 8,000 men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb and Serb paramilitary forces, on July 10, 2005, one day before the 10th anniversary of the massacre. 610 bodies have been exhumed from mass and secondary graves and identified by the International Commission on Missing Persons in preparation for the anniversary. A total of approximately 2,000 of the nearly 8,000 victims of the massacre have been identified by the ICMP, and another 3,000 body bags, which may contain partial remains or the remains of several people, await identification. By photographer Geoffrey King
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  • A Bosnian Muslim man brushes sawdust from a coffin containing the remians of an individuals killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which nearly 8,000 men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb and Serb paramilitary forces. Approximately 2,000 of the nearly 8,000 victims of the massacre have been identified by the ICMP, and another 3,000 body bags, which may contain partial remains or the remains of several people, await identification. 610 newly-identified bodies were buried on July 11, 2005, the 10th anniversary of the massacre. By photographer Geoffrey King
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  • Paddy Ashdown, United Nations High Representative for Bosnia from May 2002 to January 2006, with his interpreter at the opening ceremonies for a new factory near in Potocari, Bosnia on July 6, 2005. The old battery factory nearby is where Bosnian Muslim men and boys were separated from their loved ones before being killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which nearly 8,000 died at the hands of Bosnian Serb and Serb paramilitary forces. By photographer Geoffrey King
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  • Bosnian Muslim men prepare to transfer the remains of individuals killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which nearly 8,000 men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb and Serb paramilitary forces. Approximately 2,000 of the nearly 8,000 victims of the massacre have been identified by the ICMP, and another 3,000 body bags, which may contain partial remains or the remains of several people, await identification. 610 newly-identified bodies were buried on July 11, 2005, the 10th anniversary of the massacre. By photographer Geoffrey King
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  • Staff members of the International Commission on Missing Persons examine the remains of individuals killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre at the ICMP Reassociation Centre in Lukavac. Nearly 8,000 men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb and Serb paramilitary forces in the July 11, 1995 massacre. Approximately 2,000 of the nearly 8,000 victims of the massacre have been identified by the ICMP, and another 3,000 body bags, which may contain partial remains or the remains of several people, await identification. 610 newly-identified bodies were buried on July 11, 2005, the 10th anniversary of the massacre. By photographer Geoffrey King
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  • The International Commission on Missing Persons morgue in Tuzla, which houses the unidentified remains of approximately 3,000 of the 8,000 men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb and Serb paramilitary forces. A total of approximately 2,000 of the victims of the massacre have been identified by the ICMP, and 610 newly-identified victims were buried on July 11, 2005, the 10th anniversary of the massacre. By photographer Geoffrey King
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  • Serb boys play basketball amongst blast holes in Srebrenica. Serb forces shelled the playground in 1993, killing 14 children in the then mostly Bosnian Muslim town. Srebrenica is now primarily Serb. By photographer Geoffrey King
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  • Serbian dignitaries and Bosnian Serbs attend a Saint Peter's Day gathering in Srebrenica on July 12, 2005. On July 11, 2005, mourners commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, in which Serb and Bosnian Serb forces killed nearly 8,000 unarmed men and boys in what has become known as the worst mass killing in Europe since World War Two. By photographer Geoffrey King
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  • Bosnian Muslims grieve as they bury 610 newly-identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre, in which nearly 8,000 men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb and Serb paramilitary forces, on July 11, 2005, the 10th anniversary of the massacre. The 610 bodies have been exhumed from mass and secondary graves and identified by the International Commission on Missing Persons in preparation for the anniversary. A total of approximately 2,000 of the nearly 8,000 victims of the massacre have been identified by the ICMP, and another 3,000 body bags, which may contain partial remains or the remains of several people, await identification. By photographer Geoffrey King
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