Meaning of Srebrenica | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A town and municipality in the easternmost part of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was the site of an ethnic cleansing massacre in July 1995.
2. An ethnic cleansing massacre, a localized genocide.

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Examples

“And another Srebrenica, a Lidice, a Babi Yar . . .”

“The West had seen enough of Milosevic and they would not tolerate the possibility of another Srebrenica.”

“I think we all saw that very strong leader in The Times on Saturday, with the suggestion that the UN was walking, in the case of Jonglei, into another Srebrenica or another Rwanda.”

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