After the genocide of Bosnia had taken root, the United Nations (UN) designated several towns in Bosnia to be considered safe zones; Srebrenica was one of the final safe areas to be appointed. In July 1995, Bosnian Serb troops led an attack on Srebrenica where thousands of Bosnian civilians had taken refuge. As the Serbian troops entered the town, the quickly hurried and separated women and children. They loaded them on to buses to be taken to different sites. Along the way, the buses often stopped to take off women to kill or rape them. Meanwhile in Srebrenica, men and boys were murdered to a total of around 80,000 over a span of a week. The bodies were then buried in mass graves. But to try to cover up the crime, the Serbs re-dug and reburied the bodies in different locations. The massacre of Srebrenica included "ethnic cleansing," was known as a gendercide, and was listed as one of the worst massacres in Europe since WWII.