A survivor and an ally reflect 30 years later

Reported by STL Jewish Light

Next month, in St. Louis—the city with the largest Bosnian community outside of Bosnia and Herzegovina—we gather to mark 30 years since the genocide in Srebrenica. We write to remember what happened, to honor the victims and survivors, and to reflect on what it means to remember genocide in our time.

In July 1995, more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were systematically executed over just a few days in and around the town of Srebrenica. They were targeted solely because they were Muslim. The perpetrators were Bosnian Serb forces under the command of General Ratko Mladić, who promised “revenge against the Turks” as he entered the supposed United Nations “safe area” that had been abandoned to its fate... Read more