Srebrenica

Srebrenica – Potočari memorial site - darkometer rating : 9 - The memorial for what is known as the Srebrenica massacre, or even Srebrenica genocide , committed in July 1995 by Bosnian Serbs against Bosnian Muslims during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina . There is a cemetery, where some 7000 victims of the atrocities are buried, and continue to be buried once identified … which is an ongoing process. In addition there is a Memorial Hall and a museum in the nearby former car-battery factory, which at the time had become a base for Dutch UN troops, where many of the victims had tried to seek refuge. Srebrenica stands for the worst genocidal atrocities committed in Europe since the Holocaust . Here the "never again" pledged after WWII was truly nullified. Given the significance of the events of 1995 and because it was comparatively recent, visiting the site is heavy-duty dark tourism, also in view of the remoteness of the site. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: For more general context see under Bosnia and Herzegovina . Srebrenica is the agreed cover term for a series of massacres and "ethnic cleansing" committed by the Bosnian Serb forces under General Ratko Mladić, in the latter stages of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovia in July 1995. More narrowly, Srebrenica is the name of a town/municipality that was a Bosnian Muslim enclave within the Bosnian Serb Republika Srpska in the east of Bosnia and Herzegovina not far from the border with Serbia . It had become a target for Bosnian Serbs early on in the conflict of the 1990s and had basically been under siege since 1992.