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VISIT TO THE GENOCIDE MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL

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Srebrenica  ||  | 11 July 2025
Iniziative (EN) - Totem for Peace

After laying a flower - together with representatives of various countries on the plaque at the Potocari cemetery commemorating the genocide of 11 July 1995 - Secretary-General Michele Capasso and Pia Molinari, together with Miguel Ángel Moratinos and others present, visited the Srebrenica Memorial and Museum (located in front of the former UNPROFOR compound) in memory of the victims of the massacre.
Under the invaluable guidance of Munira Subašić and the other mothers, Nura Begović, Fadila Efendić, Šuhra Sinanović, Kadefa Muhić, Sadeta Suljić and Hamdija Feizić, the key stages commemorating the massacre thirty years ago were retraced.
The museum presents a permanent exhibition of personal effects found in mass graves. The exhibition is enriched by informative films and documentaries on the events of the genocide. Since 2017, an exhibition concerning the role of the Dutch peacekeepers present during the massacre has also been opened. The museum is being expanded and an archive is being formed with free access to documents on the history of the genocide.
The cemetery, located across the road, has a wall of remembrance at the entrance, slabs placed in a semicircle where the names of the 8,732 victims of the Srebrenica massacre are engraved. It lists both the victims buried in the cemetery and those still missing.
At the entrance to the site there is also the Muṣallā, the place for communal prayer that precedes the burial of the victims. Arranged around the central area, in the shape of flower petals, are seven patches of earth covered almost entirely with thin white gravestones in memory of the victims of the genocide. The cemetery is constantly expanding, and every year the bodies of the victims found are buried. This year, seven newly identified victims were buried.
Great recognition was given to the Foundation for setting up the exhibition “Srebrenica-Sarajevo thirty years later: not to forget”.