‘THE VOICES OF OUR DEAD HAVE NOT FADED AWAY’: THE FIGHT FOR THE MEMORY OF GENOCIDE IN SREBRENICA
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10.07.2025


The Guardian (10 July 2025)

Julian Borger

 

Three decades on, as leaders deny what happened, remains of the thousands killed continue to be identified and buried.

Three decades after genocide was committed in the middle of Europe, memories in the rest of world are beginning to fade, helped along by a relentless effort by the perpetrators and their allies to cover up evidence. But the sprawling murder scene in the hills and fields around Srebrenica continues to cough up its bones.

In the town of Bratunac, 6 miles (10km) north of Srebrenica town, a group burial was performed recently of victims’ remains that had been identified over the course of the preceding year. Imams gathered from across the country to pray before a line of six coffins draped in the blue and gold Bosnian flag.

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