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.
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Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world are gathering in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim boys and men.
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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Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world gathered in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of a massacre there of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim boys and men — an atrocity that has been acknowledged as Europe's only genocide after the Holocaust.
Herzegovina, to mark the 30th anniversary of the only acknowledged act of genocide in Europe since World War II.
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.
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.
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.