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What is commemorated at the Srebrenica memorial cemetery dedicated in 2003?

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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.

The Srebrenica memorial cemetery, which was dedicated in 2003, serves as a site of remembrance for the victims of the Srebrenica massacre.

In July 1995, during the Bosnian War, Bosnian Serb forces systematically massacred at least 7,000—and by some estimates more than 8,000—Bosniak men and boys in the area. This act of genocide involved the execution of thousands of individuals who had been captured or had surrendered after attempting to flee the town, which had been declared a "safe area" by the United Nations. The memorial honors these victims, whose lives were taken during a campaign of ethnic cleansing intended to expel Bosniak inhabitants from eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.123