With right wing sentiment increasing across Europe, it’s more important than ever to raise awareness of the potential for ethnic tensions to escalate into violence. When 8,000 people can be murdered on European soil only twenty years ago, it is essential that we teach the generations that follow us about the corrosive effect of discrimination and prejudice and how easily it can spiral.
These lessons will ensure Scottish schoolchildren are educated on the terrible events that took place at Srebrenica and give them the tools to critically challenge prejudice and racial hatred.
