The Croatian parliament on Tuesday observed a minute of silence in memory to over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys killed in July 1995 when the eastern Bosnian area of Srebrenica fell into the hands of the Serb forces.

Central commemorations in tribute to victims of the Srebrenica genocide are held on 11 July.

The Croatian Parliament has commemorated one of the worst atrocities committed on European soil after the Second World War since 2009, when it declared 11 July Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day.

About 8,300 Bosniaks, mainly men and boys, were killed after Bosnian Serb forces under General Ratko Mladic overran the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina 28 years ago. Two years ago, an appeals chamber of the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague upheld the sentence of life imprisonment for Mladic.