At a UN General Assembly event in New York, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said that the killing of thousands of Bosniaks in Srebrenica in 1995 represented a failing on the part of the UN and the international community.
“The UN Secretariat, the Security Council and member states share the blame” for the massacres of more than 7,000 Bosniaks after Bosnian Serb forces seized what was supposed to be a UN-protected ‘safe zone’, he added.
The UN secretary-general also recalled how his visit to Srebrenica in 2012 affected him emotionally: “I will always remember the tears and pain of the mothers and loved ones of those who were killed because of who they were,” he said
