Mortal remains of 19 victims of the Bosnian Genocide will be buried at the Potocari-Srebrenica Memorial Centre this year. Each year, mass graves are uncovered containing the remains of those who were killed in the genocide in 1995.
On 6th April 1993, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 819, declaring that Srebrenica and a 30 square mile area around the town was a United Nations Safe Area. The UN promised the people of Srebrenica safety and security. Their promises fell through as genocide began.
Following the disintegration of Yugoslavia, leaders utilising ethno-nationalism rose to power across the region The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, founded in 1943 during
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, David Rohde, explains the Srebrenica genocide within the wider context of the Bosnian War.
It is said that there are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. For some women in Bosnia, the stages are on loop. For every time a woman thinks she has buried the remains of her husband or her son, another piece of him resurfaces, and she must re-live the anguish all over again.
Former US Ambassador, Swanee Hunt, recalls how she became engaged with the women of Srebrenica and then how the full story of the genocide was uncovered.
We interview Florence Hartmann, who was a journalist in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s working for Le Monde and later became the official spokesperson for the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Over 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were murdered in Srebrenica however, after a terrifying and horrific 70-mile march under heavy fire, around 3,500 Bosnian-Muslims escape to safety. This is know as the Death March.
The name Srebrenica has become synonymous with those dark days in July 1995 when, in the first ever United Nations declared safe area, thousands of men and boys were systematically murdered and buried in mass graves.
