Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial Centre - Commission for PAX, 2019

In July 1995, more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim civilians were murdered in Srebrenica and Potocari by Bosnian Serb forces under the command of General Ratko Mladić.

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Many of the victims had come to Srebrenica because it was a UN-designated “safe area”, where, as refugees, they expected protection from the UN peacekeepers stationed there.

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Since the end of the Bosnian conflict, survivors'’ associations have reclaimed the UN’s former base in Srebrenica. They have turned the site of one of the UN’s greatest failures into a place to honour the victims and to carry out the vital work of ensuring that such an atrocity never happens again.

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Srebrenica survivors continue to seek truth, justice and compensation, and to lead efforts both to sustain a peaceful society and to build a more effective international community.

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This series was commissioned by PAX, a Dutch peacebuilding organisation which has supported the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial Centre since 1999. I worked for PAX from 2016 to 2019.

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