Milošević signing the Dayton Accords on behalf of the Bosnian Serb leadership. Wikipedia/public domain."[T]housands of men executed and buried in mass graves, hundreds of men buried alive, men and women mutilated and slaughtered, children killed before their mothers’ eyes, a grandfather forced to eat the liver of his own grandson. These are truly scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history."
Those are the words of a judge in The Hague in November 1995, confirming the indictment for genocide in and around Srebrenica against the Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and the wartime commander Ratko Mladic before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
This month marks the twentieth anniversary of the slaughter of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys from the Srebrenica area by Bosnian Serb Forces in July 1995. It is a moment to reflect on the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War, and to examine whether Martin Luther King’s maxim that the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice holds true.
