(10 Jul 2024)
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Belgrade, Serbia – 10 July 2024
1. Activists holding banner reading (Serbian) “Solidarity – We will never forget genocide in Srebrenica – Responsibility”
2. Activists holding banner reading (Serbian) “Solidarity”
3. Various of activists holding banners
4. Various of police and activists
5. Activists holding banner
6. Activists holding numbers "8372" – referring to number of victims
7. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Stasa Zajovic, Women In Black NGO:
”What is important for us today is to address not only the state of Serbia but more over the citizens and the victims of the genocide in Srebrenica, to say that July 11 is Serbia’s obligation to declare Remembrance Day of the genocide in Srebrenica. Not only because this is an international obligation or prerequisite for European integration or joining the community of progressive nations but because that is a respect of the victims in the first place but also us citizens of Serbia.”
8. Activists placing stickers on the ground reading Srebrenica
9. Close of sticker
10. Activists holding numbers 8372 – referring to number of victims
11. Activists holding banner reading “Remembrance Day for genocide in Srebrenica – Declare! Declare! Declare! Declare!”
STORYLINE:
Dozens of human rights activists held banners in Belgrade on Wednesday to commemorate victims of the Srebrenica massacre.
“Solidarity – We will never forget genocide in Srebrenica – Responsibility,” one banner read. “Remembrance Day for genocide in Srebrenica – Declare! Declare! Declare!” another read.
In May 2024, The United Nations approved a resolution establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995 massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs, a move vehemently opposed by Serbs who fear it will brand them all as “genocidal” supporters of the mass killing.
The vote in the 193-member General Assembly was 84-19 with 68 nations abstaining, a reflection of concerns among many countries about the impact of the vote on reconciliation efforts in deeply divided Bosnia.
"It’s Serbia’s obligation to declare Remembrance Day of the genocide in Srebrenica. Not only because this is an international obligation or prerequisite for European integration or joining the community of progressive nations but because that is a respect of the victims in the first place but also us citizens of Serbia," said Stasa Zajovic from the NGO "Women In Black".
AP video shot by Ivana Bzganovic
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