Smajo Bešo
The Bosnian War took everything from me – my home, my dad, uncles, and friends. Everything I once knew. Before the war, my childhood in my hometown village of Barane was amazing. …
2025 Theme: Remember Yesterday, Act Today
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Every year, Remembering Srebrenica chooses a theme that honours the victims and survivors of the 1995 Bosnian genocide and speaks directly to the responsibilities we share in our society today.
This year, our theme is “We Are Here”.
“We Are Here” is the voice of survivors of genocide who endured unimaginable loss, yet stand today with dignity, courage and strength. It is also a call to action for all of us, to stand up against hate and prejudice.
The name Srebrenica has become synonymous with those dark days in July 1995 when, in the first ever United Nations declared safe area, thousands of men and boys were systematically murdered and buried in mass graves. The victims, who were Muslim, were selected for death on the basis of their identity. This was the worst atrocity on European soil since the Second World War.
Sadiq Khan became the first Mayor of a global city to visit the Srebrenica Memorial Center in Bosnia & Herzegovina, where he paid his respects on behalf of Londoners, ahead of the 31st anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
The UK National Srebrenica Memorial Day Ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide took place on 17th June 2025 at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. Just under 2,000 guests attended, together with Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Angela Rayner, Presidents Komšić and Bećirović of Bosnia and Herzegovina, His Eminence Reis Husein Kavazović, Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK Minister for Europe Stephen Doughty, Minister for Faith and Communities Lord Khan, and many others.
The Ceremony was livestreamed and you can watch the recording by clicking the button below. To follow the recording, you may find it helpful to download the Order of Service (printer’s PDF), which has English translations of the testimony, song and Qur’anic verses that were delivered in Bosnian at St Paul’s.
In the last twelve years, Remembering Srebrenica has educated 250,000 young people on the lessons from Srebrenica. We enable each year over a thousand community actions in schools, local authorities, places of worship, community centres, prisons and police forces right across the UK and we have created 1,500 Community Champions who pledge to stand up to hatred and intolerance in their communities.
Genocide survivors stand at the heart of the work we do here at Remembering Srebrenica.
The Bosnian War took everything from me – my home, my dad, uncles, and friends. Everything I once knew. Before the war, my childhood in my hometown village of Barane was amazing. …
Hatidža Mehmedović was born in the area surrounding Srebrenica in 1952. Before the genocide, she lived her entire life in Srebrenica, where she had married her childhood friend …
At dawn, that July 8th, it was thundering somewhere in the woods loud enough to wake us. That is when I moved to my shelter, next to the freezer, where the thickest wall was. …
I have no token from the war, nothing I took as a refugee when we left our home, nor when we left our home country, but I have many memories that will resonate with others who were children in war.
We worked with a wide variety of news publishers and broadcasters to achieve the maximum possible coverage of our 2025 memorial events and survivors’ stories in UK and Bosnian media, reaching many millions of readers and viewers.
Read the story at mirror.co.uk
‘Untold Killing’ Season 1 marked the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
‘Untold Killing’ Season 2 marked the 30th anniversary of the crimes committed in Prijedor.
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Our podcast ‘Untold Killing’ won two awards at the ARIAS 2021. The podcast won Bronze in the Impact Award and Silver in the Best Commercial Partnership categories. Known as the Oscars of podcasting, the recognition helped Remembering Srebrenica and our partners at Message Heard raise awareness of the lessons of Srebrenica and enable survivors to tell the story of Srebrenica in their own words through an intimate method of broadcasting during a difficult year.
‘White Flower’ performed by the Sarajevo National Theatre & Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra & Cardiff Ardwyn Singers/Cantorion Ardwyn Caerdydd, featuring Remembering Srebrenica’s own Abi Carter, chair of our Wales Board. The song gives voice to a victim’s soul and a mother’s grief. It was written by Elvir Solak of the National Theatre of Sarajevo who plays guitar in this performance.
Remembering Srebrenica’s North West co-chair, Neil Sledge, has released a song called ‘Sarajevo Rose (The Scars of War)’, which is about Bosnia in the 1990s. The song was co-written by Neil and Daniel Kebede on their return from a visit to Bosnia in May 2025 by key figures in the National Education Union and National Association of Head Teachers, together with Remembering Srebrenica.
You may also be interested in these music-related films (links to IMDb):
Remembering Srebrenica remains committed to honouring the
victims and survivors of the genocide.