SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina, July 11 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the world organization made mistakes 10 years ago at Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the time of a massacre of Muslims.
He called the killing of more than 7,500 Muslim boys and men the worst on European soil since World War II, adding "(W)e made serious errors of judgment." Annan's remarks message were read out Monday by Mark Malloch Brown, his chief of staff at 10th anniversary ceremonies in Srebrenica where the remains of 610 victims exhumed from mass graves and now identified were re-buried.
From July 12-18, 1995, Bosnian Serbian troops singled out victims in the Srebrenica to kill them in groups in fields, schools and warehouses.
The United Nations set up the International Criminal Tribunal in Yugoslavia in 1995 to prosecute suspects, although Bosnian Serbian Army commander Ratko Mladic and wartime leader Radovan Karadzic remain at large.
