; Whereas the remaining population sought protection with the Dutch peacekeeping battalion at its headquarters in the village of Potocari north of Srebrenica, but many of these individuals were with seeming randomness seized by Bosnian Serb forces to be beaten, raped, or executed; Whereas Bosnian Serb forces deported women, children, and the elderly in buses, but held over 8,000 primarily Bosniak men and boys at collection points in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina under their control, and then summarily executed the captives and buried them in mass graves; Whereas Bosnian Serb forces, hoping to conceal evidence of the Srebrenica massacre, subsequently moved corpses from initial mass grave sites to many secondary and tertiary sites scattered throughout parts of northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina under their control; Whereas the Srebrenica massacre was among the worst of many atrocities to occur in the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina from April 1992 to November 1995, during which the policies of aggression and ethnic cleansing pursued by Bosnian Serb forces with the direct support of Slobodan Milosevic and the Yugoslav Government led to the displacement of more than 2,000,000 people, more than 100,000 killed, and tens of thousands raped, tortured, and abused, including at concentration camps in the Prijedor area, with the innocent civilians of Sarajevo and other urban centers repeatedly subjected to traumatic shelling and sniper attacks; Whereas in addition to being the primary victims in Srebrenica, individuals with Bosniak heritage comprise the vast majority of the victims during the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a whole, especially among the civilian population; Whereas article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) killing members of the group