Srebrenica massacre timeline
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SERBIA
CROATIA
Bihac
BOSNIA
Serb control
Tuzla
Potocari
Srebrenica 
Sarajevo
Gorazde
Zepa
Mediterranean Sea
50km 30 miles

Jul 1995

UN safe haven 
Bosnian Serb control 
Bosnian / Croat control

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1992: Bosnia-Herzegovina declares independence from Yugoslavia. War erupts between Serb, Croat and Muslim factions. Bosnian Serbs, under Radovan Karadzic, lay siege to Sarajevo
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1993: Amid reports of ethnic cleansing, UN declares safe havens for Bosnian Muslim civilians
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1994: Battalion of 570 Dutch troops assumes UN peacekeeping duties in Srebrenica enclave
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Jul 6-10, 1995: Bosnian Serb forces attack Srebrenica. Around 30 Dutch troops taken hostage
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Jul 11: More than 20,000 refugees flee to main Dutch base at Potocari.
UN airstrikes on Bosnian Serb positions suspended after Serbs threaten to kill Dutch hostages. Bosnian Serb troops under General Ratko Mladic enter Srebrenica
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Jul 12: Bosnian Serb forces begin deporting women and children, and separating out all males aged 12 to 77 for “interrogation”
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Jul 13: Dutch troops hand over 5,000 civilians sheltering at Potocari to Bosnian Serb army in exchange for release of 14 Dutch peacekeepers
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Jul 16: Reports of massacres start to emerge. Around 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys killed in Srebrenica in just three days – worst atrocity on European soil since Holocaust
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Sources: Amnesty International, Reuters, BBC Pictures: AP, Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS