VICTIMS: NIJAZIJA DUDIC & PREGNANT WIFE REMZIJA DUDIC
BORN ON JULY 11TH. KILLED ON JULY 11TH. PREGNANT.
Please consider donating to the Srebrenica Memorial Quilt. Let us memorialize names of 8,372 Srebrenica genocide victims forever.
“To our dearest who have not come yet – let us write
their names again, let us write them in love.”
Thanks to Advocacy Project and friends like you, 8,372 victims of the Srebrenica genocide will never be forgotten.
I invite all of you to pick one name amongst 8,372 names of the genocide victims, and help Srebrenica women 'engrave' it into their beautiful quilts. The cost to memorialize one name is only $50. If that's too much for you to donate, then please consider donating ANY AMOUNT you can. It feels good to help and it will make you even more proud of yourself and your dignified actions.
The Srebrenica Memorial Quilt campaign is spearheaded by the Washington-based Advocacy Project. TIf you have means to do so, please consider doing it. There is no higher moral satisfaction than empowering women to continue fighting for justice.
The quilt currently comprises 85 panels, each commemorating a victim of the massacre. It has been made by weavers from the Bosnian women’s group BOSFAM, who themselves lost relatives in the Srebrenica massacre. BOSFAM motto is: “To our dearest who have not come yet – let us write their names again, let us write them in love.”
You can donate safely and securely through
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Help the Srebrenica cause by purchasing the most beautiful
hand woven quilts directly from the BOSFAM online store.
(Get in touch with BOSFAM Weavers on Facebook)
What if I don't have money to help?
Please consider contacting Bosniak lobby groups and urging them to donate funds to the campaign. For example, you may wish to contact the Bosniak American Advisory Council for Bosnia-Herzegovina in Washington, DC (E-mail BAACBH Executive Director) and ask them to help (they are well funded). You may also wish to contact Sanela Diana Jenkins Foundation. If you have time, you can locate other advocacy groups and organizations and ask them to help.
posted by Srebrenica Genocide at 3:08 PM
3 Comments:
The idea of the memorial quilt is brilliant, it reminds me of the AIDS quilt. I think that sometimes when the death toll is so overwehlming, the indviduality of the victims sometimes can get overlooked-this quilt helps us remember the victims both as individual fathers, son, brothers, etc. AND as part of the larger Bosniak community who were victims of genocide.
Not to mention, the quilt is great microeconomic tool for generating income amongst some of the most vulnearable groups of survivors. And a creative way to show traditional Bosnian crafts.
Thanks for displaying the quilt. As Shaina says, it's a brilliant idea. It's a tangible memorial that at the same time is making an important contribution to the lives of survivors.
Ma'sha'allah, beautiful idea.
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