(11 Jul 2024)
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Belgrade – 11 July 2024
1. Various of activists lighting candles around the fountain
2. Close of candles being lit
3. Wide of fountain with lit candles
4. Various of activists holding banner reading (Serbian) “Too young to remember – Determined never to forget!”
5. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Marko Milosavljevic, from Youth Initiative for Human Rights:
"Serbia citizens gathered here to pay respect for victims of the genocide in Srebrenica – marking the 29th anniversary. What is important to us to say is that this anniversary is left without messages from government officials in Serbia.”
6. Close of lit candles
7. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Marko Milosavljevic, from Youth Initiative for Human Rights:
”We are organizing this commemoration so that we could put Belgrade and Serbia on the map of world remembrance of the victims of the genocide.”
8. Various of police securing the event
9. Pan from police to the event
10. Lit candles
STORYLINE:
A group of activists gathered late Thursday by the Serbian presidency building to mark the 29th anniversary of the 1995 massacre in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.
Activists lit candles and held a banner reading "Too young to remember – Determined never to forget!”.
Police secured the event.
"What is important to us to say is that this anniversary is left without messages from government officials in Serbia,” said Marko Milosavljevic, a member of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights.
Serb leaders insist the massacre is not genocide, but a “terrible crime."
They have also downplayed the number of those killed.
The activists join thousands of people from Bosnia and abroad who gathered in Srebrenica on Thursday for the annual ritual of commemorating the 1995 genocide.
Serb officials continue to deny the massacre, fueling ethnic tensions and deep divisions.
More than 8,000 Bosniak Muslims were estimated to have been killed in the shooting spree by the Bosnian Serb army and police over several days in July 1995.
The Srebrenica killings were the bloody crescendo of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, which came after the breakup of Yugoslavia unleashed nationalist passions and territorial ambitions that set Bosnian Serbs against the country’s two other main ethnic populations — Croats and Bosniaks, who are mostly Muslim.
The commemoration Thursday came only weeks after the United Nations General Assembly voted to designate July 11 annually as an international day of reflection and commemoration of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
Serbia and Bosnian Serbs strongly opposed its adoption, wrongly claiming it portrays all Serbs as “genocidal people.”
AP video by Ivana Bzganovic
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