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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