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Remembering Srebrenica

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom • 25 Employees
Nonprofit Organization Management

Remembering Srebrenica is the UK charitable initiative, which promotes: • Srebrenica Memorial Day • ‘Lessons from Srebrenica' visits to learn from the genocide and victims' lives; and, • Public awareness to reject hatred and build good community relations Remembering Srebrenica aims to learn the lessons of the past to inform our future. We recognise that we have achieved a lot in the UK but discrimination, promotion of hatred, extremism and exclusion persist, and we must play our part, however big or small, to create a safer and better future for all. "…The greatest atrocity on European soil since the Second World War." In July 1995, Serbian forces, commanded by General Mladić and his paramilitary units, systematically and brutally massacred more than 8,000 Bosnian men and boys. Their bodies, many dismembered and mutilated, were piled in mass graves. Almost twenty years later, their remains are still being uncovered. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) have both ruled that the mass execution of Bosnian men and boys in Srebrenica constitutes as genocide. Describing the 'unimaginable savagery' endured by victims at the hands of Mladić's forces, Prosecutor Judge Riad said they were "truly scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history". The European Parliament has now declared 11th July as Srebrenica Memorial Day; an opportunity to remember the victims of the genocide, their suffering families, and to acknowldege that we can never again let such atrocities occur. www.srebrenica.org.uk facebook.com/rememberingsrebrenica Twitter: SrebrenicaUK