Srebrenica

Almasa Salihovic was just eight years old when her brother, Abdulah, was murdered. He had sought shelter in a UN compound near the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica as thousands of his neighbors fled the advancing Bosnian Serb army (VRS) through the surrounding woods and hills. After two days, on…

Never again. It’s a response we reach for instinctively whenever we are confronted with the sickening facts of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. But what does it really mean? Even if we recognize the warning signs, what can we do concretely to prevent hate from spilling over into…

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وبارك وسلم ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله A good friend of mine asked me what was the most upsetting thing about the trip. Unfortunately, it was quite easy to answer this. Political Background

11 July 11 2021 marks the twenty-sixth anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in which 8372 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were massacred by the Bosnian-Serb forces. The worst atrocity in Europe since World War II is still a bleeding wound for humanity. Each year on July 11, mass gatherings take…

How One Woman’s Passion was Achieved Despite the Setbacks of War Story by: Fuada Velic Edited by Dainelis Rodriguez and Naz Hussein Fuada immigrated to the United States in 2000 as an adolescent, leaving behind her home, friends, and passion for running. Her transition to another country created many challenges…

I remember where I was on September 11, 2001. Sitting on a park bench in a London suburb enjoying a quiet day off. An elderly couple nearby were exchanging greetings with a park gardener. I wasn’t eavesdropping, but did overhear one phrase being repeated: “We’re lucky here. Look at other…

by Vahid Suljic Fifty years after the world said “Never Again” to the horrors of the Holocaust, genocide took place on European soil. The name Srebrenica has become synonymous with those dark days in July 1995 when, in the first ever United Nations declared safe area, thousands of men and…

The Srebrenica anniversary is weighing on me. As is the article on lynching I read this morning. It’s like a grey filter over the world, overriding the green and blue and the warm blanket over my shoulder with the grime of dehumanisation. …

25 years after the Srebrenica massacre the wounds are not healed. — In Srebrenica, today a ceremony will commemorate the massacre of 8.372 people. At the event will take part most of the international community with its sad face. …