Srebrenica.org.uk Website Review

Srebrenica Memorial Day, paying tribute to the victims of the Genocide, sending a clear message to future generations to say We work with influential people to help strengthen British society by tackling hatred, racism and intolerance. Keeping alive the memory of the crimes committed in July 1995 is just part of what is owed to the victims and the communities that mourn them. Remembering painful truths about the past is the key to our shared quest for a better and more tolerant world.. DONATE TO CREATE THE WORLD’S FIRST INTERNATIONAL SREBRENICA MEMORIAL LEARNING CENTRE. REMEMBERING SREBRENICA > These are truly scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of > human history.” Judge Fouad Riad, International Criminal Tribunal For The  Former Fifty years after the world said “Never Again” to the horrors of the Holocaust, genocide took place on European soil. The name Srebrenica has become synonymous with those dark days in July 1995 when, in the first ever United Nations declared safe area, thousands of men and boys were systematically murdered and buried in mas* graves. The victims, predominantly Muslim, were selected for death on the basis of their identity. This was the worst atrocity on European soil since the Second World War. Although Srebrenica is the only mas* killing in Balkan wars that has been officially ruled as genocide by the international courts, this atrocity was only the final act in a much broader genocidal strategy—euphemistically dubbed “ethnic cleansing”. The Srebrenica genocide was the planned, systematic, and industrialised conclusion of a four year campaign of forced deportation, to*ture, mas* murder and systematic se*ual violence by Bosnian Serb forces in service of their goal to create a “Greater Serbia”. Genocide does not happen overnight. It begins when hatred and intolerance are left unchallenged or are manipulated for political gain. With the fall of Yugoslavia, politicians in the region used divisive nationalism to gain power and influence. Propaganda and