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Srebrenica women recognised for highlighting 1995 genocide

Women place flowers on a truck carrying 50 coffins with remains of the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide in Visoko, Bosnia, Friday, July 8, 2022 [Armin Durgut/AP]

They were the ones who lived in a world in which their husbands, sons, brothers, uncles and nephews were massacred. They were the ones who fought to make sure that the world would neither deny nor forget the truth of what happened in Srebrenica.

As thousands converge on the eastern Bosnian town to commemorate the 27th anniversary on Monday of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II, the crucial role women have played in forging a global understanding of the 1995 massacre also is getting recognised.

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