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Yusuf Islam: Srebrenica victims’ innocent blood still cries loud for justice
Remembering Srebrenica is honoured and grateful international humanitarian Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) has written this moving piece about the 25th anniversary of the Bosnian Genocide. While the attention of world powers move to confront the toxic threat of Covid-19, isn’t it time the world also addresses that much more diabolical and corrosive pandemic threat […]
UK National Srebrenica Memorial Day Commemoration 2020
The UK’s National Srebrenica Memorial Day Commemoration took place online and was broadcast on Al Jazeera, Face TV, Hyatt TV and the Islam Channel, reaching millions of people in the UK and across the world. The distinguished speakers who participated in the National Memorial Day Ceremony included HRH Prince Charles, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Hollywood Actress […]
Virtual Museum unveiled on 9th July
We are pleased to announce news of an exciting collaboration between Remembering Srebrenica and the global news channel Al Jazeera to launch a virtual museum. Chronicling the crimes of the genocide in chronological order using the testimony of survivors and footage from 1995 the Srebrenica Virtual Museum will be a permanent online reminder for the […]
Srebrenica Memorial Week Events and Activities 2020
Over 1,200 memorial events and activities will be taking place in schools, local authorities, faith institutions, police forces etc as well as numerous individuals across the UK during this year’s Srebrenica Memorial Week from the 5th – 12th July. Everyone at Remembering Srebrenica could not be more proud of all those connected to the charity […]
Remembering Srebrenica’s Statement of Solidarity
Remembering Srebrenica UK, as an organisation that fights against genocide denial and teaches on the consequences of hatred is all too familiar with the lessons of “othering” human beings. Yesterday marked White Armband Day, a painful reminder of the otherisation Bosnian Muslims endured during the Bosnian war and subsequent genocide when they were forced to […]
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Chair – Kim Sadique Board members Supt Martyn Ball Revd Dr Tom Wilson Dr James Tangen John Coster Laura Paton
HRH Prince of Wales’ Visit to Srebrenica
Remembering Srebrenica UK is delighted that it has been confirmed that His Royal Highness Prince Charles will be undertaking an official visit to Srebrenica to mark the 25th anniversary of the genocide next month. The Prince of Wales will meet with survivors and the mothers who lost sons, husbands and other male relatives in the […]
Remembering Srebrenica’s 2020 Theme: Every Action Matters
Every year, Remembering Srebrenica UK selects a theme that reflects an aspect of the genocide that must be commemorated, but also speaks to communities here across the country. The UK’s Srebrenica Memorial Week for 2020 will be taking place from 5th to 12th July. The theme for 2020 is ‘Every Action Matters’. This theme was […]
Celebrating Community Champions at London Awards Dinner
Remembering Srebrenica’s London and South East Board held their Awards Dinner to celebrate the hard work of Community Champions and volunteers who made Srebrenica Memorial Week 2019 such a huge success in the South East. The region held the most memorial activities aimed at educating the young and old about the dangers of hatred and […]
Remembering Srebrenica joins FlyBosnia on inaugural direct flight
Remembering Srebrenica UK Chairman, Dr Waqar Azmi OBE and staff were privileged to be part of FlyBosnia’s inaugural direct flight from London Luton to Sarajevo on 19 September 2019. They were joined by FlyBosnia CEO Tarik Bilalbegović, UK Ambassador to BiH Matt Field, BiH Ambassador to UK Vanja Filipović, Robert McNeil MBE, Oliver Kamm, and over a […]
Remembering Srebrenica launches pioneering youth programme with Mid and East Antrim Borough Council
Northern Ireland’s first programme reflecting on the worst atrocity on European soil since the Second World War is to inspire future generations that peace after conflict is possible. In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys simply because of their faith, in what is known as the Srebrenica genocide. […]
Statements on the Netherlands’ Supreme Court judgment on Dutch liability in Srebrenica
On Friday 19 July 2019, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that the Dutch state had 10% liability for the deaths of 350 men and boys while under the protection of Dutch UN peacekeepers in July 1995, in a final verdict that ends a years-long legal battle between the Dutch state and the claimants, the Mothers of […]
“If you are a Bosniak, the Srebrenica massacre, whose 25th anniversary was marked this summer, is part and parcel of your existence. You survived when others did not.”
#Srebrenica25
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Robert McNeil, Ambassador for Remembering Srebrenica UK and UNESCO RILA Affiliate Artist has unveiled his new website which will hopefully serve to better educate about the genocide in Srebrenica and raising awarness of it. https://t.co/lZcitrE2jg
“There hasn’t been enough done for those who survived. Because of that we have more and more aggressive denial of the genocide”
Nedzad Avdic, genocide survivor
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