Definitions for "Srebenica"
One of many towns and cities designated as by the United Nations as "safe areas" that came to symbolize the ineffectuality of United Nations protection during the war in the former Yugoslavia. It was conquered by Bosnian Serbs in the summer of 1995. Dusan Tadic: A 40-year-old Serbian policeman who is the first to be brought to trial by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He is charged with 31 counts, including crimes against humanity, that involve the persecution, killing and torture of Muslims in and around Serbian-run prison camps in 1992. Josip Broz Tito: Originally famed for World War I military valor, Tito was the heroic leader of Partisans against totalitarian Ustashi, Chetniks and Axis powers in Yugoslavia during World War II. He was the chief architect and leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, delicately balancing the region's national rivalries until his death in 1980. Franjo Tudjman: President of Croatia. Generally regarded as a nationalist. He has allowed symbols of Croatia's fascist past to re-emerge.