Srebrenica Genocide Memorial

June 23, 2019
001 - IMG_5103 From Sarajevo northwest to Srebrenica Genocide Memorial (officially known as the
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002 - P1180541 The memorial site has an abandoned plant that had been used as an excution site by the Serb forces.
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003 - P1180542 Headstones in the memorial site...
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006 - P1180546 The infamous plant...
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049 - IMG_4716 Police guards the memorial site...
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007 - IMG_4671 Arriving the entrance gate of the memorial site...
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012 - P1180547 The Srebrenica–Potočari Memorial and Cemetery for the Victims of the 1995 Genocide
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051 - IMG_4717 With the gate fully opened...
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008 - IMG_4674 The massacre in Srebrenica began in Potočari, where some 25,000 Bosniak Muslim refugees had desperately gathered awaiting evacuation. After entering the city on...
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010 - IMG_4676 The Dutch UN peacekeepers stationed in Srebrenica (Dutchbat) were unable to stop the massacre, despite having their headquarters in the town. In all, about...
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009 - IMG_4675 In October 2000 Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, declared that the land in Potočari would be turned into a memorial and...
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011 - IMG_4677 Memorial fountain...
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019 - P1180554 Srebrenica July 1995, 8,372 craved names...
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013 - IMG_4679 Marble walls with names of killed victims
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042 - IMG_4709 The $5.8 million memorial-cemetery complex paid for with donations from private groups and governments.
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058 - IMG_4722 The memorial was opened by the former United States President, Bill Clinton, on 20 September 2003.
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016 - IMG_4681 More graves...
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040 - IMG_4707 More grave markers are added...
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