the icrc continued its activities throughout the 1990s. it broke its customary media silence when it denounced the rwandan genocide in 1994. it struggled to prevent the crimes that happened in and around srebrenica in 1995 but admitted, "we must acknowledge that despite our efforts to help thousands of civilians forcibly expelled from the town and despite the dedication of our colleagues on the spot, the icrc's impact on the unfolding of the tragedy was extremely limited." it went public once again in 2007 to decry "major human rights abuses" by burma's military government including forced labour, starvation, and murder of men, women, and children.