DID YOU KNOW?  -- Three years before the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, Serbs torched Bosniak villages and killed at least 3,166 Bosniaks around Srebrenica. In 1993, the UN described the besieged situation in Srebrenica as a "slow-motion process of genocide." In July 1995, Serbs forcibly expelled 25,000 Bosniaks, brutally raped many women and girls, and systematically killed 8,000+ men and boys (DNA confirmed).

11 September, 2011

11TH EACH MONTH, SREBRENICA REMEMBRANCE

PHOTO 1/7: Women of Srebrenica hold a peaceful protest on the 11th day of every month in remembrance of the July 11th 1995 fall of Srebreniaca and massacre of 8,372 boys and men of Srebrenica. 

PHOTO 2/7: Srebrenica women hold a
peaceful protest on 11th of each month.
Today, like 11th day of every month, Women of Srebrenica held a peaceful protest on the streets of Tuzla, alerting the public to the genocide that occurred in July 1995 in which 8,372 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys were slaughtered by Serbian soldiers and, in many cases by Serbian civilians, who were terrorizing Srebrenica from April 1992 up until July 1995.

They accused the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Office of the Prosecutor, and the Institute for Missing Persons of delaying exhumations of victim's remains from mass graves.

PHOTO 3/7: Srebrenica women hold a
peaceful protest on 11th of each month.
"This year, not even one mass grave has been exhumed. Many parents have died and they did not see to bury their children. Most responsible for the delay in exhumations and slow process of identificating victims are the Court and the Prosecutors office of Bosnia-Herzegovina," said Hajra Ćatić, president of non-governmental association "Women of Srebrenica."

"Since the process of identifying our loves ones moved to their jurisdiction, we feel almost nothing has been done. We have a feeling that someone from the top wants to find as little evidence of genocide that was committed against our loves ones as possible. There seems to be a strategy that with a reduced number of exhumed, also reduce a number of missing, so that someone can tommorow start convincing us that our children are not dead," she added.
PHOTO 4/7: Women of Srebrenica hold a peaceful protest on the 11th day of every month in remembrance of the July 11th 1995 fall of Srebreniaca and massacre of 8,372 boys and men of Srebrenica.
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PHOTO 5/7: Women of Srebrenica hold a peaceful protest on the 11th day of every month in remembrance of the July 11th 1995 fall of Srebreniaca and massacre of 8,372 boys and men of Srebrenica.
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PHOTO 6/7: HAJRA CATIC, president of the non-governmental association Women of Srebrenica ("Zene Srebrenice") is a tireless activist for human rights and a survivor of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide. Hajra Catic lost her husband, Junuz, and son Nino in the genocide. Her husband was seized by Bosnian Serb forces when he accompanied her to the UN base at Potocari. His body was found in a mass grave in 1998 and identified in 2005. He had been shot in the neck. When she went to the ICMP (International Commission on Missing Persons) centre to identify his clothing. "When I saw all the remnants and clothing I felt as if the murder had happened right there and then," she said. Her son was killed when he tried to escape through the forest with other men. Sixteen years on, however, his body has still not been found because the area remains heavily mined.
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PHOTO 7/7: Women of Srebrenica hold a peaceful protest on the 11th day of every month in remembrance of the July 11th 1995 fall of Srebreniaca and massacre of 8,372 boys and men of Srebrenica.

posted by Srebrenica Genocide at 1:19 PM