Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Julian Borger in Srebrenica

‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica

An older woman sits on the grass between two graves and prays. More gravestones fill the background
Jusufovic Sajma, a Bosnian Muslim woman, prays at the graves of her two sons and husband, killed in 1995 and buried at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre. Photograph: Damir Šagolj/The Guardian

Three decades after genocide was committed in the middle of Europe, memories in the rest of world are beginning to fade, helped along by a relentless effort by the perpetrators and their allies to cover up evidence. But the sprawling murder scene in the hills and fields around Srebrenica continues to cough up its bones.

In the town of Bratunac, 6 miles (10km) north of Srebrenica town, a group burial was performed recently of victims’ remains that had been identified over the course of the preceding year. Imams gathered from across the country to pray before a line of six coffins draped in the blue and gold Bosnian flag.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.