A little more than three years ago that the war returned to Europe with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, three years since we relived the worst nightmares of other contests such as that of Bosnia that ended the genocide of Srebrenica, recognized by international justice.
Family and survivors have gathered as July 11 in Srebrenica to pay tribute to the thousands of victims of the Serbobosnias troops: 8,000 men and children who were killed – in a safe area designated by the UN – for the simple fact of being Muslims. Three decades later, some 1,000 people remain missing and families only have the comfort of burying at least the partial remains of their loved ones.
“I’ve been waiting for 30 years,” says a Bosnian woman who has only been able to locate her husband’s jaw. “In 2013 they found only two bones of my husband and I have not yet been able to bury him. They have spent 3 decades since he was shot, since he was killed in the fall of Srebernica,” he laments in tears.
The greatest massacre committed so far in Europe after World War II
“It is very sad, many are still missing, the remains need to meet and bury themselves so that their families know where they are,” adds another relatives who have gone to the Srebrenic cemetery.
Your drivers, General Ratko Mladic (known as “The Balkan butcher”) and the Serbian political leader Radovan Karadzic, were convicted of genocide by the International Criminal Court of The Hague. And precisely the denial of it is what still hinders the integration of Bosnia into the EU.
It is considered the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.
