Dubh ( ar thitim Shrebenice , 11ú Iúil , 1995 ) also known as Black ( on the fall of Srebrenica , 11 July , 1995 ) , is a poem by Irish poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill about the Srebrenica massacre , the July 1995 killing of an estimated 8,000 Bosniak men and boys , as well as the expulsion of 25,000 – 30,000 refugees in the area of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina , by units of the Army of Republika Srpska ( VRS ) under the command of General Ratko Mladić during the Bosnian War . '' Dubh '' relates Ní Dhomhnaill 's reaction to the massacre . Her original version and a translation by Paul Muldoon are included in An Leabhar Mòr , published in 2008
Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre
Dubh (ar thitim Shrebenice, 11ú Iúil, 1995)