In July 1995, the Bosnian town of Srebrenica witnessed what later came to be recognised as genocide, during the Balkan wars that followed the breakdown of communist Yugoslavia. Over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed in the process. The operation was carried out mainly by units of the Bosnian Serb army of Republika Srpska. They were commended by Ratko Mladic, also known as the “Butcher of Bosnia”, now in a prison in The Hague, Netherlands, for the last 14 years, after he wa