Balkans | An exhibition entitled “Stories from Srebrenica” opened in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The exhibition “Stories from Srebrenica” opened in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The exhibition, organized by the Potocari Memorial Center in the Tuzla Youth Center, consists of photos and videos telling the stories of the people who lost their lives in the Srebrenica genocide in the country’s 1992-1995 war.

“The exhibition is a mixture of video archives and objects of the victims,” said Ahmet Mehmedovich, one of the memorial center officials. He said.

It is noteworthy that the exhibition, which can be visited for 7 days in Tuzla, will then open in Prijedor, Mostar and Sarajevo.

Genocide in Srebrenica

During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serb forces of Ratko Mladic occupied Srebrenica, which was declared a “safe area” by the United Nations on July 11, 1995.

As for the Bosnian civilians who took refuge with the Dutch soldiers inside the United Nations after the occupation, they were handed over to the Serbs.

8,372 Bosniaks who were put on buses and trucks were brutally murdered in the forest areas, factories and warehouses where they were transported. The bodies of the dead were buried in various mass graves across the country.

The bodies of some of those killed in the genocide have never been found.

After the war, the victims whose bodies were found were buried in mass graves in an effort to find the missing in a ceremony held at the Potocari Memorial Cemetery on 11 July each year after their identification.

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