Srebrenica women recognised for highlighting 1995 genocide

Samuel

 |  Jul 10, 2022

More than 8,000 men and boys from the Bosniak ethnic group perished in 10 days of slaughter by Bosnian Serb forces. They were the ones who lived in a world in which their husbands, sons, brothers, uncles and nephews were massacred. They were the ones who fought to make sure that the world would neither deny nor forget the truth of what happened in Srebrenica. As thousands converge on the eastern Bosnian town to commemorate the 27th anniversary on Monday of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II, the crucial role women have played in forging a global understanding of the 1995 massacre also is getting recognised. A permanent photo exhibition of portraits of the women of Srebrenica opened on Saturday in a memorial centre dedicated to the massacre’s more than 8,000 victims. The centre in Potocari, just outside the town, is set to host an international conference of women discussing how they found the strength to fight for justice after being driven from their homes and witnessing their loved ones being taken away to be killed. “After I survived the genocide in which my most beloved child and my husband were killed, it was the injustice of their…