It's 30 years since a massacre of Bosnian Muslims during the war in the former Yugoslavia.
The Srebrenica massacre, recognised by the United Nations as a genocide, was the shocking climax of the war in Bosnia.
In 2014, Louise Hidalgo talked to Hasan Nuhanović whose father, brother and mother were among the 8,000 Bosnians killed.
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(Photo: Graves of those killed in the Srebrenica massacre. Credit: Pierre Crom/Getty Images)
