The 11th anniversary...

Today, on the 11th of July 2006 we remember the ones who died in the biggest massacre in Europe after the IIWW called Srebrenica. Over 8,000 men, killed, slaughtered and thrown into mass graves which are found all over this mourning country.

Only 1/10 of these bodies were found in mass graves so far, identified and burried in the memorial centre in Potocari every anniversary.

On 11th July 1995, women and children were sent out of the city and men were held in Srebrenica which has been declared a 'Safe Area' in 1993 and then attacked by the Serbian forces in Spring of 1995 lead by Ratko Mladic (who has still not been captured to be trialed for this crimes of genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina). The ironic thing is that the UN declared this a 'Safe Area' but it did nothing to protect the Bosniak civilians in Srebrenica. One hundred lightly armed Dutch peacekeepers were denied repeated requests for reinforcements and consequently sidelined to witness what was to follow. Faced with the reality that Srebrenica had fallen under the control of Bosnian Serb forces, thousands of Bosniak residents from Srebrenica fled to the nearby hamlet of Potočari seeking protection within the UN compound. By the evening of July 11, 1995, approximately 20,000 to 25,000 Bosniak refugees were gathered in Potočari. Several thousand had pressed inside the UN compound itself, while the rest were spread throughout the neighboring factories and fields. Though the vast majority were women, children, elderly or disabled, 63 witnesses estimated that there were at least 300 men inside the perimeter of the UN compound and between 600 and 900 men in the crowd outside. The others were gathered on the way.

The mass executions were done in the most brutal way possible. Tying the victims' hand with wire and then cutting their throats or shooting them from the back and throwing them into garbage holes which were later filled with earth to cover the tracks. These are called primary graves. A few days/weeks/months afterward a truck would come and dig the hole and transport the bodies to a second location. This is called a secondary mass grave.

The torture for these people will never stop unless Mladic and Karadzic (the people responsible for these crimes) are captured and until the TRUTH is told once and for all no matter how bloody and gruesome it may be.
Today 505 new bodies of identified people from Srebenica will be buried in the memorial centre in Potocari.

Today is a day of mourning in Bosnia and Herzegovina....