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| rdfs:comment | - The Siege of Srebrenica (, ) was a three-year-long siege of the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina which lasted from April 1992 to July 1995 during the Bosnian War. Initially assaulted by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and the Serbian Volunteer Guard (SDG), the town was encircled by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) in May 1992, starting a brutal siege which was to last for the majority of the Bosnian War. In June 1995, the commander of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) in the enclave, Naser Orić, left Srebrenica and fled to the town of Tuzla. He was subsequently replaced by his deputy, Major Ramiz Bećirović.
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| Commander | - Milenko Živanović
- Milorad Pelemiš
- Naser Orić
- Radislav Krstić
- Ramiz Bećirović
- Ratko Mladić
- Zdravko Tolimir
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| Territory | - Republika Srpska captures the Srebrenica enclave
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| Caption | - A panorama of the town of Srebrenica
- A map depicting the capture of Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb forces
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| Casualties | - 1
- 9377
- Unknown
- More than 8,000 civilians dead and 35,632 evacuated
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| Result | - Beginning of the Srebrenica massacre
- Decisive Bosnian Serb victory
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| combatant | - 22
- Army of Republika Srpska
- Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Greek volunteers
- Russian volunteers
- Police, volunteers and paramilitaries from Yugoslavia
- Yugoslav People's Army
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Army of Republika Srpska
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| Conflict | - Operation Krivaja '95
- Oпeрaциja Криваја '95
- Siege of Srebrenica
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| abstract | - The Siege of Srebrenica (, ) was a three-year-long siege of the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina which lasted from April 1992 to July 1995 during the Bosnian War. Initially assaulted by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and the Serbian Volunteer Guard (SDG), the town was encircled by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) in May 1992, starting a brutal siege which was to last for the majority of the Bosnian War. In June 1995, the commander of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) in the enclave, Naser Orić, left Srebrenica and fled to the town of Tuzla. He was subsequently replaced by his deputy, Major Ramiz Bećirović. In July 1995, Srebrenica fell to the combined forces of the Republika Srpska and numerous paramilitary formations which included hundreds of Greek and Russian volunteers in what was codenamed Operation Krivaja '95. The subsequent massacre of the town's male population led to the deaths of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys, and is considered the largest act of mass murder in Europe since the end of World War II. It was judged to have been a crime of genocide by international criminal courts. As a result, VRS General Radislav Krstić was found by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of murder, persecution and aiding and abetting genocide, while VRS General Zdravko Tolimir was also convicted of genocide. Both men were sentenced to life imprisonment. One of the indictments against Ratko Mladić, the commander of the VRS during the war, is for the massacre in Srebrenica. The commander of Bosniak forces in the enclave, Naser Orić, was found guilty of failing to prevent the mistreatment of VRS prisoners held in Srebrenica between September 1992 and March 1993. However, his conviction was overturned in 2008.
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