(23 May 2024)
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Potocari, Bosnia-Herzegovina - 22 May 2024
1. Various of 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
2. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Mejra Dzogaz, lost three sons, husband and grandson in genocide in Srebrenica: ++PARTLY COVERED++
“Our children…I can never get my three sons back. also 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.”
3. Memorial center
4. Mothers with Ghani praying
5. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Suhra Sinanovic, lost several family members during Srebrenica genocide: ++PARTLY COVERED++
“I wish we finally put a final stop at the end of 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.“
6. Graves of Srebrenica victims
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nusrat Ghani, UK Minister for Europe: ++PARTLY COVERED++
“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 “
8. Various of memorial center
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.
The bereaved mothers were accompanied by Nusrat Ghani, UK minister for Europe and the British Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Julian Reilly.
They were visiting the memorial a day ahead of a planned U.N. vote on establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide.
Munira Subasic, from the association of the Mothers of Srebrenica, said the resolution “means a lot” for those who lost their loved ones in Srebrenica and for the truth and justice.
“People who live in lies, who don’t know the truth , they will need this U.N. resolution more than we do. I am referring to Republika Srpska, to Serbia – and all other genocide deniers,” said Subasic who lost her husband and son. “They will not be able to glorify war criminals any more.”
“We expect a fair decision tomorrow, decision that will tell us, the families, that there is justice in the world, that there is humanity,” said Nura Begovic, who also lost several family members in Srebrenica.
Ghani meanwhile said she looked forward to the motion being passed "and that is one step towards reconciliation is accepting what did indeed take place," Ghani said.
The proposed U.N. resolution sponsored by Germany and Rwanda has sparked protests and a strong lobbying campaign against the measure by the Bosnian Serb president, Milorad Dodik, and the populist president of neighbouring Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic.
The two leaders say the resolution would brand all Serbs as genocidal, although the draft does not explicitly mention Serbs as culprits.
Both Serbia and Bosnian Serbs have denied that genocide happened in Srebrenica although this has been established by two U.N. courts.
On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serbs overran a U.N.-protected safe area in Srebrenica.
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