How many victims of the Srebrenica genocide had the International Commission on Missing Persons identified by 2023?

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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 Women mourning over a coffin before the mass funeral for 136 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, 2015.

By 2023, the International Commission on Missing Persons had successfully identified more than 7,000 individual victims of the Srebrenica genocide through the use of DNA analysis.1

This identification process was a monumental task, as perpetrators had attempted to conceal the crimes by moving remains between approximately 80 different mass grave sites. The work of scientists to piece together these remains remains a vital component of the pursuit of justice and the acknowledgment of the atrocities committed in 1995.1