(22 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Potocari, Bosnia-Herzegovina – 22 May 2024
1. Memorial stone, number of victims listed on the memorial
2. Rose on the tombstone that lists names of the victims
3. Various of graves
4. Mothers of Srebrenica victims association arriving, to lay flowers along with UK minister for Europe Nusrat Ghani and British ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Julian Reilly
5. Mothers with Ghani praying
6. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Munira Subasic, mother who lost husband and son during genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995:
“Well, (the UN Resolution) means a lot. First, it will stop people offending mothers (of Srebrenica), there will be a correct characterization of the event. People who live in lies – people don’t know the truth, they will need this UN resolution more than we do. I am referring to Republika Srpska, to Serbia – and all other genocide deniers. They will not be able to glorify war criminals any more. So tomorrow is an historic day for mothers of Srebrenica. From tomorrow on – everyone can learn.”
7. Memorial center
8. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Nura Begovic, mother who lost several family members during genocide in Srebrenica:
“Victims expect…well we are standing at the site of the genocide, where the biggest genocide in the world was committed, so we expect a fair decision tomorrow, a decision that will tell us, the families, that there is justice in the world, that there is humanity so that we can say that Srebrenica does never happen to anyone in the world so that we can have at least some form of normal future and that things like this never happen again here.”
9. Graves, memorial center
10. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Mejra Dzogaz, lost three sons, husband and grandson in genocide in Srebrenica:
“Our children…I can never get my three sons back or my husband and my grandson. Five men from my house alone. I will never get them back. But the stain will remain on them (Serbs). What are we supposed to show to prove it? What? Look at this memorial center here.”
11. Woman passing by graves of killed
12. Graves
13. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Suhra Sinanovic, lost several family members during Srebrenica genocide:
“I wish we finally put a final stop on the genocide denying. To stop them from glorifying war criminals. That we stop them naming schools and institutions after war criminals. I hope with this resolution, the schools will finally teach a real history, so children will learn the truth about what really happened here on July 11th , 1995. “
14. Graves of Srebrenica victims
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Nusrat Ghani, UK Minister for Europe:
“Once again looking around here, seeing the number of tombstones and I recognize the truth that over 8,000 boys and men were killed, and that’s apart from the women and children that were also killed. The UK government has, as the international law, has decreed that a genocide did indeed did take place here. Today is Wednesday, tomorrow Thursday, there is motion voted on in the UN and I look forward to that motion being passed and that is one step towards reconciliation is accepting what did indeed take place. And then of course that means you can go a step forward in delivering justice and then reconciliation “
16. Memorial center
17. Graves
STORYLINE:
The mothers of men and boys killed during the 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs in Srebrenica laid a wreath and prayed near the graves of their loved ones on Wednesday.
They were visiting the memorial a day ahead of a planned U.N. vote on establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide.
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