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R. Jeffrey Smith

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BIOGRAPHY

Former National Investigative Correspondent, The Washington Post. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

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Two women in headscarves embrace and mourn over a green coffin among rows of identical coffins at the Potocari cemetery during the Srebrenica massacre mass funeral.

Srebrenica genocide

Srebrenica genocide, slaying of more than 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) boys and men, perpetrated by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, a town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in July 1995. In addition to the killings, more than 20,000 civilians were expelled from the area—a process known as…