USHMM: NEW SREBRENICA PHOTOS ADDED

A BIG THANK YOU TO
THE U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
(In Hebrew: תוֹדָה!)

Our friends at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) have added a new set of photographs commemorating the Srebrenica genocide. New photographs have been licenced from an acclaimed photographer Tarik Samarah. These photos are added in addition to a set of highly educational Srebrenica genocide videos, known as Eyewitness Testimonies, and now they bear a permanent witness to the genocide.

New photos can be found at the USHMM Gallery titled: Srebrenica: Legacy of Genocide. They can be accessed and viewed here:www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/gallery/photo/15

We're deeply thankfull to the USHMM
There is no words that can describe how much we are thankful to the USHMM for everything they have done in the past years to preserve the truth of the genocide. We invite our readers to donate generously to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and help their work. Why donate to the USHMM?

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USHMM: Eyewitness Testimonies

Natasa Kandic - one of key human rights activist in Serbia, selected by Time Magazine as one of 36 European Heroes and a recipient of the Martin Ennals Award, a prestigious human rights recognition.

Dr. Eric Dachy was working in the former Yugoslavia with an international aid organization in 1993 when he joined a United Nations peacekeeping convoy to the town of Srebrenica, then under siege by Bosnian Serb forces.

Hasan Nuhanovic, aka: "Elie Wiesel of Bosnia," is a Srebrenica genocide survivor who worked as the United Nations' translator in Srebrenica.

Christiane Amanpour reported the suffering of Bosnian civilians to international audiences. She was shocked to discover that many of the badly wounded Srebrenica victims were children.

Dragan Obrenovic was a perpetrator of the Srebrenica genocide, he was a chief of staff and deputy commander of the 1st Zvornik Infantry Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army from December 1992 through November 1996.

Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), a Polish Jewish lawyer, dedicated his life to creating legal protections for ethnic, national, religious, and cultural groups.

Srebrenica 1992-95, how it all started?

In April 1992 (more than three years before the Srebrenica massacre), Serb forces -- with logistical and military help from Serbia -- began a widespread campaign of brutal "ethnic cleansing" of the Bosniak [Bosnian Muslim] population of Eastern Bosnia. Thousands of Bosniak refugees flocked to Srebrenica. They were forced to live in the besieged enclave with little or no means of survival and under brutal Serb attacks. Many starved to death. 

Serb Army stationed around Srebrenica never demilitarized, even though they were required to do so under the 1993 demilitarization agreement. In 1992 alone, approximately 100,000 Bosniaks had been expelled from their homes and at least 11,391 Bosniaks were killed by Serb forces in eastern Bosnia (source: Research & Documentation Centre in Sarajevo), while hundreds of Bosnian Muslim villages were destroyed around Srebrenica.
Serb forces stationed around Srebrenica constantly attacked neighbouring Bosniak villages and Srebrenica itself. They also bombarded Srebrenica from air with Serbian airplanes.

In July 1995 the Bosnian Serb army staged a brutal takeover of Srebrenica and its surrounding area, where they proceeded to perpetrate genocide. Bosnian Serb soldiers -- with military and logistical help from Serbia -- separated families, committed brutal rapes of many women and girls, and then forcibly expelled at least 20,000, while summarily executing 8,372 Bosniak men and teenage boys. Srebrenica genocide is remembered the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.