Bosnians Honour Srebrenica Genocide Victims
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The town was supposed to be a “safe area,” protected by U.N. peacekeepers, but Serb forces massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys there.
The play reflects the grim reality of the events not just of July 1995 – but the ensuing decades of unresolved grief and divisions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.The Srebrenica Massacre remains the most notorious war crime committed in Europe since World War Two.
Herzegovina, to mark the 30th anniversary of the only acknowledged act of genocide in Europe since World War II.
Miles de personas de Bosnia y de todo el mundo se reunieron en Srebrenica para conmemorar el 30mo aniversario de una masacre en la que
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As the world marks the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, those who worked to bring the perpetrators justice say there are many lessons for dealing with Russian atrocities in Ukraine.
Hundreds of Bosnians and local community members gathered at Mohawk Valley Community College on Friday to take part in the fifth annual Srebrenica Remembrance Walk, honoring the victims of the 1995 genocide and marking 30 years since one of the deadliest atrocities in modern European history.
On this day in 1995, at the height of the war in the former Yugoslavia, the Bosnian Serb army captured what was supposedly the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica. In the ensuing days, thousands of Bosnian Muslim women were raped. 8000 Muslim men and boys were murdered. It was Europe's worst massacre since the Second World War.
Now, only fragments of her and fragments of her previous life remain in this world. So, by composing the picture in a way that her son’s and husband’s pictures along with her head are together - the rest of her body is not. I want to convey exactly that message: Only in dreams, when her eyes finally close, does she feel whole again.