Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ceremony honors six Srebrenica youths executed during Bosnian war.

SHOTLIST: TRNOVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (JULY 17, 2026) 1. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE PLACING FLOWERS AT MEMORIAL SITE AND PRAYING 2. ATTENDEES DELIVERING SPEECHES 3. VARIOUS OF ATTENDEES 4. SEJDALIJA DELIC, BROTHER OF 25-YEAR-OLD VICTIM JUSO DELIC, SPEAKING TO REPORTER (Bosnian) 5. MUNIRA SUBASIC, PRESIDENT OF THE MOTHERS OF SREBRENICA AND ZEPA ASSOCIATION, SPEAKING TO REPORTER (Bosnian) TRNOVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - JULY 17, 2026: A memorial ceremony was held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday, July 17, for six Bosniak youths from Srebrenica who were executed by a Serbian paramilitary unit during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. The ceremony marked the 31st anniversary of the killings and took place in a forest near Trnovo, where the six victims were executed. Speaking at the ceremony, Sejdalija Delic, the brother of 25-year-old victim Juso Delic, said his brother had been beaten and tortured so severely that he could not recognize him. - Srebrenica genocide In the spring of 1993, the UN Security Council declared Srebrenica a protected “safe area.” Bosnian Serb forces under the command of Ratko Mladic overran the enclave on July 11, 1995, despite the presence of Dutch UN peacekeepers. Women, children and elderly people were forcibly transferred from the enclave, while more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were detained and later killed in forests, schools, factories and warehouses in and around Srebrenica. The International Court of Justice ruled in 2007 that the killings constituted genocide. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and its successor court also convicted senior Bosnian Serb political and military leaders, including Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, sentencing both to life imprisonment. Victims’ remains have been recovered from dozens of primary and secondary mass graves across eastern Bosnia. Many bodies were exhumed from primary graves and reburied in secondary sites in an organized effort to conceal evidence of the crimes. Identified remains continue to be buried each July 11 at the Potocari Memorial Cemetery, while the search for more than 1,000 missing victims continues.