SREBRENICA GENOCIDE IN BOSNIA

24TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION

The single greatest atrocity in Europe since the Second World War, resulting in the massacre of 8000 Bosnian men and boys.

Friday 12 July 2019

7pm-9pm

Maryam Centre

3rd Floor, (East London Mosque), 45 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1JU

Guest speakers include:

Ramiza Gurdić – Mother of Srebrenica

War survivor who lost her husband, and 2 sons along with 38 relatives. A member of the Association Movement of Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa Enclaves, she campaigns for truth and justice.

Imam Mersad Krnjic

Originally from Bosnia, he is a member of the Bosnia UK Network, and is active in raising awareness about the Srebrenica genocide.

Hasan Nuhanović (via video)

Worked as an interpreter for UN troops during the war; in 2003 he brought a legal case against the Dutch government for its role in the massacre, which was successfully concluded in 2013. Author, The Last Refuge -- A True Story of War, Survival and Life Under Siege in Srebrenica.

Rabbi Herschel Gluck OBE

Chairman of the Arab-Jewish Forum and Chairman and founder of the Muslim-Jewish Forum; he has been commended in Parliament for his lifetime commitment to inter-communal understanding.

Dr Eric Gordy

Professor of Political and Cultural Sociology, University College
London; author of The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives; and Guilt, Responsibility and Denial: The Past at Stake in Post-Milošević Serbia.

Margaret Minoletti

Former Dementia Care Advisor, NHS; visited Bosnia as part of ELM-Tower Hamlets Interfaith Forum delegation.

Other guest speakers to be confirmed.