After the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995 , Madeleine Albright , the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations , told the UN Security Council that " the whereabouts of some 6,000 Bosniak men and boys from Srebrenica was unknown . But their fate was not . We have enough information to conclude now , however , that the Bosnian Serbs beat , raped , and executed many of the refugees " In the early 1990s , calls were made for legal action to be taken over the possibility of genocide having occurred in Bosnia . The ICTY set the precedent that rape in warfare is a form of torture . By 2011 , it had indicted 161 people from all ethnic backgrounds for war crimes , and heard evidence from over 4,000 witnesses . In 1993 , the ICTY defined rape as a crime against humanity , and also defined rape , sexual slavery , and sexual violence as international crimes which constitute torture and genocide
fall of Srebrenica
Srebrenica massacre
Rape during the Bosnian War