15 years have passed since the Serbian troops of Ratko Mladic, who is still the subject of a search and capture order, committed one of the cruellest genocides since the II World War, against the Muslim population from the small town of Srebrenica, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
8.873 people, almost all of them men and boys, were massacred in and around the town, leaving wives, mothers and sisters alone, desperate and devastated for life. So far, just under half of the bodies have been located in mass graves and buried with honours, but the pain goes on. It remains amongst all of the women, whether their men have been buried or not. They have not and will not forget what happened. They demand justice and recognition and that Serbia admits these events were not an act of war, but rather a merciless genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the 11th of July, 2010, the genocide was commemorated with the burial of 775 identified bodies, the largest mass burial up to now, and the pain and wounds were re-opened once again. Serbian fascist groups held protests in the streets and Srebrenica and Belgrade were once again the talking point of the International Community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hundreds of relatives of the victims and volunteers form a human chain to move the coffins and place them in the warehouse, which, in days gone by, was the Headquarters of the U.N. Peacekeeping mission and the place where men and women were separated in order to proceed to the executions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The photographs show various moments from these commemorations, such as the march for peace, which followed the route taken by the 15,000 people as they fled from Srebrenica, and who faced a similar fate to those who remained in the town; protests in Belgrade and Bratunak held by fascist groups and authorities from the Republic of Srpska; the arrival of coffins from Sarajevo and the subsequent mass burial in Potocari; testimonies of women from Srebrenica, victims of the atrocities of July 1995, how one copes with so much pain and re-emerges from the wreckage, what action they are taking to regain their memory and dignity and that of their men; and the vision of the international organisation Women in Black, the Association Mothers of Srebrenica and the United Nations Development Programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once the coffins have been arranged, the family members locate their lost souls and the feeling of pain intensifies. They will watch over them for several hours, whilst they await the burial. The wooden coffins are covered with a green cloth, the colour of Islam, and they are narrow and light, as they contain only a few remains of each identified victim. At the end of the day, the large warehouse, where the coffins are placed, is left silent and stained with green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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