On July 7, the European Parliament held hearings to mark the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre (also known as the Srebrenica genocide), Report informs.
Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, called for remembering the tragic events that constituted the largest massacre in Europe since World War II.
Representatives of all political groups who spoke afterward called for doing everything possible to ensure that such an event never happens again.
At the same time, many speakers called for attention to the tragic events in Gaza, where a humanitarian crisis continues.
The Srebrenica massacre took place in July 1995, when approximately 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed by the Bosnian Serb army. In 2007, the International Court of Justice characterized the atrocities in Srebrenica as genocide.
Ratko Mladić, the commander of the Bosnian Serb army, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 after UN judges found him guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.