{"id":188021,"date":"2022-02-23T10:43:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T09:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/?p=188021"},"modified":"2022-02-23T10:43:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T09:43:28","slug":"new-oral-history-memorial-tells-srebrenica-survivors-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/new-oral-history-memorial-tells-srebrenica-survivors-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"New Oral History Memorial Tells Srebrenica Survivors\u2019 Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BIRN and the Srebrenica Memorial Centre opened a new memorial room containing the video testimonies of 100 Srebrenica genocide survivors and personal items that they donated for safekeeping.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new memorial room, entitled \u2018The Lives Behind the Fields of Death\u2019, opened on Tuesday at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, with the intention of highlighting survivors\u2019 stories and combatting genocide denial.<\/p>\n<p>A joint project by BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, it contains 100 video testimonies from survivors and personal items that they donated to the Memorial Centre\u2019s museum collection. The testimonies can also be watched online on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/zivotiizapoljasmrti.detektor.ba\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a special BIRN site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina\u2019s director Denis Dzidic said he was grateful to the 100 survivors and the family members of those who were killed in the July 1995 genocide for deciding to share their worst experiences and publicly speak about the consequences of genocide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis platform and memorial room aim to bring the Srebrenica story back to people\u2019s personal experiences and contributing to reducing genocide denial and the misuse of genocide for political purposes. Nobody can remain unmoved by these stories,\u201d Dzidic said.<\/p>\n<p>The project was supported by the Netherlands, whose ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jan Waltmans, told the opening ceremony that one reason why the exhibition is important because it gives \u201ca human dimension\u201d to the facts and figures about the genocide which have been determined by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must never forget the Srebrenica genocide, neither the victims nor the survivors. The second reason is that education remains a cornerstone in attempts to prevent future wars, atrocities and genocides,\u201d said Waltmans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the first six months of my term in office in Bosnia and Herzegovina, through conversations, I have learned a lot about the pain and sorrow of people who survived the genocide, about families of victims who miss the presence of their relatives every day,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that he had met \u201cmany resilient people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who believe in and fight for a country in which there is no room for inflammatory rhetoric and divisions, for a society in which children play together irrespective of their origin\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>High Representative Christian Schmidt, the senior international official responsible for overseeing the implementation of the peace process that ended the Bosnian war, said that the genocide continued to have an impact on life today in Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI come from a society in which successive generations dealt with genocide legacy. This process was painful and continued for decades. It was often interrupted by denial, partly because the crime in itself is unimaginable \u2013 one doesn\u2019t believe in it,\u201d said Schmidt, who is German.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor that reason, a court investigation and detailed and empirical historic investigations are necessary. The reconciliation process cannot go on without it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Johann Sattler, the EU Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who also attended the opening ceremony, warned that \u201cthe culture of genocide and crime denial continues to live\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EU and many others here today are really working tirelessly and we are trying to learn lessons from the past and look towards the future, to preserve the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina,\u201d said Sattler.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the managing board of the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, Sefket Hafizovic, said that the memorial room would be \u201cproof of genocide\u201d but also proof that it was the consequence of \u201cethnic nationalism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crime of genocide is a crime against the whole of humanity,\u201d added Hasan Hasanovic, oral history team leader at the Memorial Centre.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch the video testimonies at BIRN\u2019s The Lives Behind the Fields of Death site\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/zivotiizapoljasmrti.detektor.ba\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emina Dizdarevi\u0107<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This article was was originally published on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/balkaninsight.com\/2022\/02\/22\/new-oral-history-memorial-tells-srebrenica-survivors-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">balkaninsight.com.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRN and the Srebrenica Memorial Centre opened a new memorial room containing the video testimonies of 100 Srebrenica genocide survivors&#8230; 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