“Straight to Potocari!”, ordered General Ratko Mladic to his troops on July 11, 1995. Potocari is a town north of Srebrenica where thousands of Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) had taken refuge from Mladic’s Serbian troops, as there was a United Nations Blue Helmets base there. However, they did not protect them and Mladic’s troops entered Potocari, where they separated the men and women and executed more than 8,000 people. Today, in Potocari, thousands of white headstones rise in the cemetery next to the museum dedicated to the Srebrenica crimes. Mladic was arrested in 2011 in Serbia, where he had been hiding for 15 years, and sent to The Hague to be tried for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Tribunal. During the trial, he confronted the judges and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017. Last week he died in prison at 84 years old.

The center of Belgrade has been filled with barricades where students and opponents of the regime of Aleksandar Vučić, of the Serbian Progressive Party, have been sleeping since mass protests on SaturdayThe protesters, led by students, They consider the government illegitimate and are demanding that Vučić call early elections. Before Saturday's protests, which were particularly large, the students issued an ultimatum demanding that elections be called before 9 p.m. on Saturday, a demand the president rejected. Presidential elections are scheduled for 2027.