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Ten Years Later, Remembering the Massacre of Srebrenica

By Sylvia Poggioli

Published July 11, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

Monday marks the 10th anniversary of the massacre at Srebrenica, Bosnia, where thousands of Muslim men and boys were executed by Serbian forces.

Since then, families of the victims have demanded to know the fate of the men while the international community has struggled to bring those responsible to trial.

Sylvia Poggioli

Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR's International Desk covering political, economic, and cultural news in Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans. Poggioli's on-air reporting and analysis have encompassed the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the turbulent civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and how immigration has transformed European societies.

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