Remembering Srebrenica

22/08/2026

The International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief is the annual observation, recognised by the United Nations, of the remembrance of victims of violence based on religion and belief.

It is also the day on which we recognise the importance of the freedom of religion and belief, marked in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, and the UK’s Human Rights Act of 1998

Protection of the right to freedom of religion and belief and respect for different faiths is a fundamental part of building an inclusive society, free from hate.

21/08/2026

On August 1992, Bosnian Serb police officers murdered over 200 Bosniak and Bosnian Croat detainees from the Trnopolje concentration camp at Korićani Cliffs, near Mount Vlašić.

The victims’ bodies were then left in mass graves at a location chosen because of its inaccessibility, which posed challenges in accessing the remains of the victims.

At present, 177 victims have been identified thanks to the work of the Bosnian Institute for Missing Persons.

The ICTY convicted Serb police officer Darko Mrđa for his role in the massacre, and Bosnian courts have convicted Marinko Ljepoja, Radoslav Knežević, Zoran Babić, Milorad Škrbić, Dusan Janković, Željko Stojnić and Saša Zečević.

17/08/2026

If you haven't yet, you can watch our 2026 theme video, 'We Are Here', on our YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/MBPlPoDdk58?si=ZdSK3c48TBoHTBFx

The film features testimony from members of the UK Bosnian community and their continued work to share their stories and rebuild after genocide.

Each year Remembering Srebrenica selects a theme that both reflects...

12/08/2026

International Youth Day 2026 is the United Nations’ programme to mark the role of young people in our society and the challenges they face. the 2026 theme is ‘different contexts, common aspirations.’

Remembering Srebrenica’s work brings together young people from different backgrounds to learn about the consequences of hatred, the events in Srebrenica in 1995, and the importance of tolerance and building stronger communities. Programmes such as our poetry project, in partnership with Nik Perring and the National Education Union in the North East, uses poetry to encourage remembrance and tolerance among students.

Our theme for this year, ‘We Are Here’, also focused on the generations of that followed in the footsteps of genocide survivors. At our UK National Srebrenica Memorial Service, second generation survivors shared their stories of growing up in the UK in the shadow of genocide. Nejira Gazibegović shared her moving testimony of the challenges her parents overcame and the community they built in the UK, of which Nejira is a part and a her generation is now working to build further.

05/08/2026

in 1992 British journalists Penny Marshall, Ed Vulliamy and Ian Williams were granted access to Omarska and Trnopolje concentration camps, releasing to the world the horrors being committed against Non-Serb citizens from the Prijedor area.

Their reporting focused international attention on the crimes of the Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, influenced the closure of Omarska thanks to the international uproar, and their testimony was used as evidence in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

02/08/2026

25 years ago, the first conviction for genocide was handed down by the ICTY, for the crime of genocide in Srebrenica.

“Knowing that the women, children and old people of Srebrenica had been transferred, you are guilty of having agreed to the plan to conduct mass ex*****ons of all the men of fighting age. You are therefore guilty of genocide, General Krstic[...]

In July 1995, General Krstic, you agreed to evil.

This is why the Trial Chamber convicts you today and sentences you to 46 years in prison.”

– from the summary of the Sentencing Judgement of Trial Chamber I, read out by
Presiding Judge Almiro Rodrigues

02/08/2026

Remembering Srebrenica UK is gravely concerned by reports that 26 current and former staff members and associates of the Srebrenica Memorial Center have been summoned for questioning by the Republika Srpska police. These developments raise serious concerns about the potential impact on those dedicated to preserving the truth of the Srebrenica genocide, supporting survivors, and educating future generations.

For more than three decades, survivors have ensured that the truth of the Srebrenica genocide has prevailed over denial. The Srebrenica Memorial Center has been central to that mission, safeguarding survivors’ testimonies, preserving the historical record, and educating future generations about the devastating consequences of hatred, dehumanisation, and genocide.

While Remembering Srebrenica UK respects the rule of law and the independence of legal processes, it is essential that survivors, researchers, educators and the Srebrenica Memorial Centre are able to carry out their work freely, independently, and without intimidation or fear. At a time when genocide denial and historical revisionism continue to threaten the truth about Srebrenica genocide, protecting the space for remembrance, education, research, and commemoration has never been more important.

We call on the UK Government, alongside its international partners, to continue its longstanding support for the independence, integrity, and vital work of the Srebrenica Memorial Center, its educators, survivors, researchers, and all those committed to preserving the truth of the genocide.

Remembering Srebrenica UK reaffirms its unwavering support for the Srebrenica Memorial Center, its educators, the Mothers of Srebrenica, survivors, researchers, and all those dedicated to ensuring that the truth of the Srebrenica genocide is preserved for future generations. By protecting truth, memory, and education, we honour those who were murdered, support those who survived, and help build a better and safer society for all.

27/07/2026

2026 marks 30 years since the first deployment of forensics teams to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Their aims: to identify remains and provide closure for the victims’ families, and collect evidence that could be used to hold the perpetrators to account and see justice served.

At the UK National Srebrenica Memorial Ceremony in London, Kathryne Bomberger, Director-General of the International Commission on Missing Persons spoke of how those aims have driven the ICMP to carry out this work in Bosnia and Herzegovina:

“After the genocide, those responsible attempted to erase their crimes.
They moved human remains from primary graves to secondary and tertiary sites, believing they could destroy the evidence.
Their calculation was simple: no body, no crime.
But they underestimated the determination of families.
And they underestimated the power of science.
When ICMP pioneered DNA identification in 2000, no one knew whether it would work at scale. The remains had been deliberately bulldozed from the original mass graves and reburied in hundreds of graves.
It worked beyond all expectation.
More than 20,000 relatives from Srebrenica provided DNA samples.
Through DNA matching, ICMP helped Bosnia and Herzegovina identify more than 7,000 of the more than 8,000 men and boys murdered in the Srebrenica Genocide.
Today, more than 90 percent of those killed have been identified.”

Kathryne’s message was clear, perpetrators can and should be brought to justice. The efforts of identifying victims in Bosnia and Herzegovina are ongoing, but their results so far have taught us lessons we should carry forward. In conflicts around the world, we know the responsibility of the states: account for the missing, preserve evidence, investigate disappearances, and hold perpetrators to account.

The responsibility to see this happen though, is not only limited to states, but to those who work for justice, who campaign to find the missing, who bear witness to the crims committed. To all of us.

As Remembering Srebrenica’s theme for 2026 states: We Are Here.

25/07/2026

Throughout the ceremony, music, poetry, art, and prayer featured as acts of remembrance: carrying grief, memory, resistance, and hope in ways that words alone sometimes cannot.

Danyal Azmi’s poem, We Are Here, gave voice to the promise running through the evening:

“Thirty-one years have passed.
Thirty-one summers have flowered and faded.
Yet still the names are carried on the wind.”

His words moved between generations: from the mothers who continue to speak the names of their sons, to survivors rebuilding their lives, and to young people who did not experience the genocide but have inherited a responsibility to remember, listen, and bear witness.

“I stand before you
Not as a Bosnian,
But as a young man
Who has inherited a responsibility.”

That responsibility belongs to all of us.

24/07/2026

The message of the UK National Srebrenica Memorial Ceremony was clear: remembrance must be grounded in truth, justice, and responsibility.
His Excellency President Denis Bećirović, Chair of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, paid tribute to the Mothers of Srebrenica, whose dignity and determination have kept alive the names of those who were murdered and sustained the long struggle for truth.
“They did not allow the victims of the genocide to be forgotten.
They did not allow justice to remain silent.”
He reminded us that preserving the truth about Srebrenica is not only an obligation to the victims and survivors. It is part of preserving “the moral foundations of Europe.” His warning was equally direct: the ideologies that produced genocide do not disappear simply because time has passed. Genocide denial, the glorification of convicted war criminals, and efforts to destabilise Bosnia and Herzegovina must never be treated with complacency.