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How many Bosniak men and boys were killed in the Srebrenica genocide?

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Bosnian conflict: destruction in Sarajevo — Bosnian War Buildings and vehicles destroyed in Grbavica, a suburb of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the Bosnian conflict (1992–95).

The Srebrenica genocide, perpetrated by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995, resulted in the systematic massacre of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys.12

While the exact number was initially a subject of debate, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) placed the death toll at more than 8,000. In 2004, the government of the Republika Srpska acknowledged that an estimated 7,800 individuals had perished, and it is generally accepted that at least 7,000 people were killed. By 2023, the International Commission on Missing Persons had successfully identified more than 7,000 individual victims using DNA analysis.3

The massacre remains the worst episode of mass murder in Europe since World War II and has been legally classified as genocide by international courts.1