Anniversary of Srebrenica today

Today marks the 13th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.

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Today marks the 13th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. The anniversary was marked in Belgrade a day before by a peaceful demonstration organized by the Women in Black NGO. Anniversary of Srebrenica today A film entitled “The Women of Srebrenica Speak” by Milica Tomic was screened yesterday. Commemorations will be held today at the Potocari memorial center. 13 years after the murders of around 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, the mothers, sisters and wives of the victims are still waiting for the guilty to be brought to justice. In Tomic’s 15-minute documentary, they talk about their fates and their attitude towards Serbs: “I would like to ask all Serbian mothers and all Serbs whose hands have not been stained with blood to stand by those innocent people and denounce the perpetrators.” "I would like to ask the Serbian authorities to stop hiding the criminals, and the Serbian youth not to listen to them, to come to Srebrenica, to see. I do not teach my children to hate, but to see people as they are, not to ask them their name, names are not important.” The International Court (ICJ) of Justice ruled that Serbia was not responsible for the Srebrenica genocide, but judged that it was responsible for not preventing it. To mark the occasion, a peace march from Tuzla to the Potocari Memorial Center has been held, in which, for the first time, people from Serbia took part.

Anniversary of Srebrenica today

A film entitled “The Women of Srebrenica Speak” by Milica Tomić was screened yesterday. Commemorations will be held today at the Potočari memorial center.

13 years after the murders of around 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, the mothers, sisters and wives of the victims are still waiting for the guilty to be brought to justice.

In Tomić’s 15-minute documentary, they talk about their fates and their attitude towards Serbs:

“I would like to ask all Serbian mothers and all Serbs whose hands have not been stained with blood to stand by those innocent people and denounce the perpetrators.”

"I would like to ask the Serbian authorities to stop hiding the criminals, and the Serbian youth not to listen to them, to come to Srebrenica, to see. I do not teach my children to hate, but to see people as they are, not to ask them their name, names are not important.”

The International Court (ICJ) of Justice ruled that Serbia was not responsible for the Srebrenica genocide, but judged that it was responsible for not preventing it.

To mark the occasion, a peace march from Tuzla to the Potočari Memorial Center has been held, in which, for the first time, people from Serbia took part.

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