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Where did the Srebrenica genocide occur?

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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 genocide occurred in Srebrenica, a town located in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.12

In July 1995, during the Bosnian War, Bosnian Serb forces perpetrated the massacre in this town, which had previously been designated a "safe area" by the United Nations. The systematic killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys, alongside the forced expulsion of over 20,000 civilians, was later classified as genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.12