Srebrenica – NEVER FORGET
Today, July 11th 2012, we remember the 17th anniversary of the gruesome Massacre in Srebrenica, the slaughter of Bosnian Muslims by the Bosnian-Serbs army.
It was a crime beyond any scale Europe has ever witnessed in the last decade. A crime that crushed humanity out of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The terrible events that occurred in Srebrenica are one of the most horrific and controversial in Europe’s recent history.
On July 11th 1995, Bosnian-Serbs forces overran the UN protected zone, separated children and women from men, and then systematically inhumanely slaughtered and exterminated men in mass executions. Both the International Criminal Court and International Criminal Tribunal have clearly called the cruel crimes committed in Srebrenica as a Genocide, a crime against humanity.
As FEMYSO we remember these horrific days, we honour and pray for the victims and we hope such crimes will never happen again. Let us not forget the suffering of the Victims by standing and watching in silence. Indeed the appalling silence of the good people hurts Victims more than the brutal cruelty perpetrated by the oppressors.
Let us honour the Souls of the defenseless Victims by stepping up and let us speak out against the inhuman injustice that has occurred.
Let us honour the Souls of the defenseless Victims by reciting the verses of surat Al-Fatiha.
Srebrenica, never again!