On this day in 1995, the genocide in Srebrenica reached its horrific climax. Bosnian Serb forces captured the UN-declared "safe area" of Srebrenica, separating thousands of Bosniak men and boys from their families while forcibly expelling tens of thousands of women, children, and elderly people. Beginning that day and over the days that followed, more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were systematically murdered. Families were destroyed, entire communities were devastated, and many victims were buried in mass graves in an attempt to conceal the crime. International courts, including the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), have recognized these atrocities as genocide.