European Parliament is at the origin of a resolution in 2009 to establish the commemoration of 11 July as a day of remembrance for the victims of the massacre in Srebrenica. This Memoclip illustrates the occupation of Srebrenica area by Bosnian Serb troops (July 1995), statement by the Council of the EU on the situation in Srebrenica (July 1995), the vote on the resolution to establish the commemoration of 11 July (01/2009), the Visit of Jerzy BUZEK, EP President, to Srebrenica (11/2011), the ceremony for the 20th anniversary of the massacre (07/2015), and Roberta METSOLA, EP President, pays tribute to Munira Subašić, Srebrenica massacre survivor and president of Mothers of Srebrenica Association, during LUX Audience Awards ceremony in 2022.

statement

Strasbourg

METSOLA, Roberta (EPP, MT, EP President)

BUZEK, Jerzy (EPP, PL)

commemoration

Srebrenica

president's agenda

SUBAŠIĆ, Munira

Memoclip: Commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide - 28 years Anniversary

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07/1995 - Srebrenica - refugees and military troops (14 shots)

07/1995 - Srebrenica - Ratko Mladić, Bosnian Serb military commander (3 shots)

Commemorative graves , views of the cemetery (2 shots)

SOUNDBITE (Spanish), Francisco Javier SOLANA MADARIAGA, Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs and President of the Council in office, On the situation in Srebrenica, "First of all, we need to re-establish peace, security in our continent that might be threatened by a potential intolerance come back and exclusive nationalisms as it has been the case with the terrible crisis in the former Yugoslavia. As President of the Council of the EU, I wish to manifest in this moment the concern of the institution I represent. Nowadays, the events taking place in that area which is near, quite very near to us." - Strasbourg - 07/1995

15/01/2020 - Hans-Gert P&Ouml;TTERING, EP President, announcing the results of a vote on Srebrenica (European Parliament, Strasbourg). In the resolution European Parliament calls on the Council and Commission to commemorate appropriately the anniversary of the Srebrenica-Potočari act of genocide by supporting the European Parliament's recognition of 11 July as the day of commemoration throughout the EU.

05/11/2011 - Jerzy BUZEK, EP President, attending a commemoration ceremony in Bosnia and Herzegovina (12 shots)

06/07/2015 - Martin SCHULZ, EP President, opens the ceremony to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica-Potočari act of genocide (European Parliament - Strasbourg).

06/07/2015 - 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica-Potočari act of genocide (European Parliament - Strasbourg). Minute of silence (4 shots).

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament, - May I invite you to applaud here with us today? The president of the Association of the Mothers of Srebrenica and the survivor of the genocide, Ms.. Munira Subasic. We are honoured. We are honoured, truly honoured that you can be here with us today in this house of democracy and freedom.

SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Munira Suba&scaron;ić, Srebrenica massacre survivor - Ladies and gentlemen, Your Excellencies. It's been 27 years since the genocide in Srebrenica. I survived the genocide. 22 members of my immediate family were killed in the genocide. My husband, my youngest son, whom I loved dearly. I buried two of his bones. I begged dear God to make sure that mothers never experience what we experienced. I prayed to dear God that no mother would ever look for her son's bones again. But while I'm speaking here, unfortunately in Ukraine, mothers are crying, looking for the bones of their sons. They're crying. Russian mothers are crying, too, because it's their children who went to either be killers or to be killed. So I beg of you, stop the war in Ukraine. Stop so that as few mothers in the world as possible suffer. Please stop the suffering. The suffering of a single mother is hard enough. Thank you once again. Thank you all who have voted for this film.