UK National Srebrenica Memorial Day Programme & Annual Report

The above image ‘White Armband‘ is a painting by Robert McNeil MBE which was inspired by Elvira Mujkanović from Prijedor who met up with her now-husband Jasmin in a refugee camp in Croatia before arriving in Scotland where she and her family now live. UK Online The Srebrenica Genocide National Srebrenica Memorial Day 2021 Humanity has lived through the darkest of times, but Programme few events have marked our collective consciousness more than the Srebrenica genocide. Naida Kundurović, Compere Welcome: Dr Waqar Azmi OBE, Chair of Remembering Srebrenica It seems incomprehensible that just over a quarter Dr Emir Suljagić, Director of the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Center of a century ago in 1995, an inhumane plan could be Mirsada Malagić, Srebrenica hatched for ethnic cleansing in Europe, with more than Survivor of genocide and ethnic cleansing 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys systematically Fikret Grabovica, Sarajevo and industrially murdered during the Bosnian War. Survivor of genocide and ethnic cleansing Dževa Avdić, Srebrenica Described by the United Nations as ‘the worst crime on Survivor of genocide and ethnic cleansing European soil since the Second World War’, the killings His Excellency, President Šefik Džaferović, Member of the Presidency of at Srebrenica have been classified as genocide by both Bosnia and Herzegovina the International Court of Justice and the International Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Yet denial and Development Affairs and First Secretary of State of this atrocity remains prevalent and a failure to face Rt Hon MSP, First Minister of Scotland up to the past has led to more pain and suffering Rt Hon Mark Drakeford MS, First Minister of Wales for survivors of the genocide, who have already Paul Givan MLA, First Minister of Northern Ireland experienced the worst of humanity. Michelle O’Neill MLA, deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland

The lessons learned from Srebrenica are that hatred Aida Čorbadžić, National Theatre Sarajevo performing Kad procvatu behari and intolerance can flourish if left unchallenged even Ferid Kevrić, Derby Survivor of genocide and ethnic cleansing in an integrated society like Bosnia and Herzegovina where people of different faiths had lived peacefully Aida Salkić Haughton MBE, Stoke-on-Trent Survivor of genocide and ethnic cleasning together for hundreds of years. Dr Anes Cerić, Birmingham, Manager of Bosnia and Herzegovina UK Network Survivor of genocide and ethnic cleansing The 11th July has been designated as the official day Smajo Bešo, Newcastle of remembrance for the victims of Srebrenica. During Survivor of genocide and ethnic cleansing this week each year, we are asked to honour the Izudin Bajrović, Actor victims and survivors of the genocide, and pledge to Semir Krivić, Actor create a better, stronger and more cohesive society in Mediha Musliović, Actress the . Mirza Dervisic, Actor Belma Salkunic, Actress Srebrenica Inferno by Octet of National Theatre Sarajevo There must be no empty pledges. We must ensure that people understand the horror that can be unleashed Candle Lighting by Remembering Srebrenica’s 11 Boards should we fail in our aim. The genocide in Srebrenica His Eminence Husein Kavazović, Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina is truly the darkest moment of European history since The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York the Second World War as thousands of innocent lives Marie van der Zyl, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews were taken as a result of nationalism which fuelled Imam Qari Asim MBE, Chair of Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board hatred against Muslims. By confronting this dark chapter of our collective history, we can illuminate Closing Remarks: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth, President of Remembering Srebrenica the darkness with hope. Visit www.srebrenica.org.uk/ceremony to watch the commemoration ii Photo opposite: Rooful Ali 1 Message from the President and Chairman Remembering Srebrenica’s Work

Our vision is a society free from hatred. We work to achieve this goal through our objectives of Remember, Learn, Pledge.

REMEMBER We bring communities together to REMEMBER Srebrenica through organising commemoration activities in the UK. 1,755 community actions took place in schools, local authorities, places of worship, community centres, prisons and police forces right across the UK in 2020.

Dr Waqar Azmi OBE, Chairman Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth, President

Despite the enormous challenges presented time and commitment to providing their LEARN by the pandemic, we are delighted that valuable advice, speaking at memorial We take people out to Srebrenica on our 2020 has been an enormously successful events across the UK, sharing their stories ‘Lessons from Srebrenica’ educational visits year for Remembering Srebrenica. We are to inspire others to reject hatred and help programme to LEARN from the survivors of proud of the way in which the team, the build a better, stronger and more cohesive the genocide. We also work with schools and Chairs and members of our eight English society for everyone. institutions across the UK to teach people to Regional Boards and three National Boards stand up to hatred and intolerance. as well as our 1,450 Community Champions We would like to express our gratitude showed great determination and creativity to the Ministry of Housing, Communities in the face of the challenges brought on by and Local Government for the consistent Covid-19 to come up with innovative ideas support of their staff, the Minister for Faith, 130,000 to commemorate the genocide as well as Lord Greenhalgh and the Secretary of State, young people have been educated about raise awareness about the importance of Robert Jenrick MP for funding Remembering Srebrenica and the consequences of hatred. tackling hatred, intolerance and building Srebrenica. Without their funding, the more cohesive communities. results that you see in this report would not be possible. The number of events and activities that PLEDGE were able to take place last year despite And finally, we would like to thank Creating Community Champions who the pandemic was truly inspirational. Remembering Srebrenica’s small but PLEDGE to stand up to hatred and Commemorations took place in hundreds of dedicated team of staff, the chairs of our intolerance in their communities. schools, local authorities, places of worship, boards, their board members and our 1,450 community centres and police forces to name Community Champions who give up their but a few, all of which brought the nation time in a voluntary capacity to help tackle together in powerful acts of remembrance. hatred and build cohesive communities. We enormously appreciate their commitment 1,450 Community Champions created who pledge As always, we are grateful to all our and dedication to honouring the victims of to stand up to hatred and intolerance

survivors who dedicate so much of their the genocide and raising awareness. in their communities. South Wales Police

2 3 Memorial Week 2020 During Memorial Week, the Leader of the Parliamentarians Support SNP Westminster Group, Ian Blackford Memorial Day MP raised the topic of Srebrenica at Prime Around 100 parliamentarians from across Minister’s Questions which has an estimated the political spectrum marked Srebrenica audience of over 350,000 people each week. Memorial Day this year by either signing an This was in addition to video messages Early Day Motion or marking the 11th July posted on Twitter by the First Minister of with a post on social media. The Early Day Scotland and the First Minister of Wales to Motion was supported by MPs from the SNP, mark the 25th anniversary of the genocide. Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Green, Plaid Cymru, DUP and Alliance.

Councils White Flower The number of local authorities who A unique musical project of remembrance was organised an act of commemoration nearly created by the Wales board of Remembering doubled, with 140 councils in England Srebrenica during the Covid-19 pandemic holding an event or activity to mark the 25th lockdown to mark the 25th anniversary of the anniversary of the genocide. There was also genocide which was shown during Memorial National Commemoration Mufti of Bosnia, Husein ef. Kavazovic, the increased council engagement in Scotland, Week. The performance of ‘White Flower’ was For the first time in history, the UK National Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, The Archbishop Wales and Northern Ireland which brought the idea of Abi Carter, the co-chair of the Wales Srebrenica Memorial Day Commemoration of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols and the overall UK figure of local authorities board, and Elvir Solak, composer of the piece was held entirely online on our socal media Imam Qari Asim, Chair of the Mosques and commemorating this year to a record- who is a survivor of the Siege of Sarajevo. The channels, and was broadcast on Al Jazeera, Imams National Advisory Board. breaking total of 151. A range of councils piece was performed by the Ardwyn Bosnian stations Face TV and Hayat TV as commemorated through different activities Singers and musicians in Wales alongside the well as the Islam Channel, reaching millions of Our feedback review continues to show such as holding a minute’s silence, raising Sarajevo National Theatre opera chorus and people in the UK and across the world. that people who work with us to organise the Srebrenica flag, lighting prominent Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra in Bosnia. memorial events and activities believe buildings and bridges to green and white It was arranged for choir and orchestra by We were delighted that the distinguished they offer the opportunity to bring people and organising virtual memorial events. David Leggett, the musical director of the speakers who participated included: from different communities together, build In addition, we received support from the Cardiff Ardwyn Singers and in total they HRH The Prince of Wales, Prime Minister relationships and understanding. Mayors of the three largest urban areas who brought together 140 volunteers to virtually , Hollywood Filmmaker represent a population of nearly 14 million perform the piece, which depicts the soul of Angelina Jolie, the President of Bosnia, of event people across London, Greater Manchester a victim re-counting his mother’s heartache Šefik Džaferović, the Secretary of State organisers and the West Midlands. and describes the infamous ‘white flower’ for Housing, Communities and Local 93% strongly agreed that has become the symbol of the Srebrenica Government, Robert Jenrick MP, Sir Keir that Srebrenica events are a part of genocide. The song was sung in English and Starmer MP, Leader of the Opposition, an ongoing effort to create more Bosnian, including solos by Abi Carter and Former Prime Minister , cohesive societies, showing the value Aida Čorbadžić, with the masterpiece receiving President Bill Clinton, Lord , of collective acts of commemoration 101% coverage on ITV Wales and thereafter growth was seen in council engagement Secretary Madeleine Albright, the Grand in uniting communities. since the previous year. widespread international acclaim.

4 5 Raising Awareness 2020

By raising awareness of the lessons events, including the broadcasting of the UK Virtual Exhibition from Srebrenica, we help people across National Commemoration online created During Memorial Week, we launched the the UK to strengthen our society by over 89.3 million opportunities for people to Srebrenica Virtual Exhibition which has understanding how hatred can destroy learn more about the genocide and the work been described as the first ever virtual communities. The pandemic meant that of the charity. artistic inspired exhibition of any genocide we had to adapt our strategy and develop in the world. The exhibition provides a new ways to better utilise our online This year, we were able to achieve increased unique perspective to the genocide in platforms in order to raise awareness. coverage which enabled millions of people a way which personalises those stories to join us in the UK and across the world in which are so often written off as victim Our 2020 short video to mark 25 years since commemorating the 25th anniversary of statistics. So far the exhibition has the Srebrenica genocide was watched by over the genocide. A few examples of the media had nearly 1,000 unique visitors who a million people on Facebook alone. Our social coverage Remembering Srebrenica received collectively have spent over 3,000 minutes media platforms grew by 133% in comparison included the Chairman being interviewed by Artwork by Robert McNeil MBE virtually exploring the exhibit items. with the increase that we witnessed during N1 and TRT World, President Lord Bourne of Srebrenica Memorial Week in 2019, with the Aberystwyth appearing on Deutsche Welle, organisation now having a combined follower the Director speaking on BBC News 24 as well and supporter count of nearly 50,000 across as survivors from Srebrenica we work closely Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Youtube. with and who have previously spoken at 900+ 50+ hrs Remembering Srebrenica commemorations unique visitors to the spent by visitors exploring the Coverage of Remembering Srebrenica’s 25th in the UK featuring on Sky News, Guardian Srebrenica Virtual Exhibition. Srebrenica Virtual Exhibition items. anniversary commemoration activities and and the Daily Mirror.

A Glimpse of Our Reach in 2020 Untold Killing Podcast In partnership with the co-production company, Message Heard, we launched our multi-award winning podcast series in October 2020 called “Untold Killing” which was released on all major platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google 18k 20k 133% Podcasts. To date, the podcast has had followers followers growth in social media nearly 100,000 unique listeners. This on Twitter on Facebook compared to growth in 2019 pioneering production was the first of Srebrenica Memorial Week its kind and features exclusive survivor You can listen to testimonials and expert analysis of the lead up to the genocide in Srebrenica and the the ‘Untold Killing’ unfolding of the events surrounding it. podcast at:

The podcast has ranked in the top 200 podcasts in both the United Kingdom and the United States and won two awards at the ARIAS which 1.2m 89.3m 65k is recognised as the Oscars of podcasting. views of our 25th opportunities to learn unique listeners It has also received press from the Spectator, anniversary video about the genocide to our podcast Guardian and the Daily Mirror in print and on Facebook and our message ‘Untold Killing’ online as featured podcasts for the week. Apple Podcasts Spotify

6 7 Education 2020

Our education work takes the Srebrenica remainder of our activities taking the Teacher CPD genocide as a starting point from which to traditional path of lessons, assemblies and Both the University of Worcester and the discuss the key requirements for building art projects. 18,805 young people were University of Gloucester held teacher stronger, more resilient societies. By reached through 890 educational activities training CPD with Remembering Srebrenica considering the possible stages of genocide, held throughout Srebrenica Memorial Week in the lead up to Memorial Week, giving young people learn to identify and 2020 representing an increase of 220% from teachers the chance to see our resources challenge issues which may cause division the previous year’s Memorial Week. and also consider the ways that Srebrenica in our communities. can be incorporated into current practice and contexts. In each session, feedback This year, we engaged teachers with high was excellent, with teachers feeling more quality digital resources, the release of 42k+ empowered to find ways to teach both a survivor testimony pack of 25 stories students reached in 2020. Srebrenica and other genocides across the suitable for classroom use, and undertook curriculum including in PSHE, English and work throughout 2020 at various events, through pastoral time such as form time schools, universities and fairs to raise and assemblies. awareness with educators for the 25th 220% anniversary. In response to Covid, we increase in reaching students adapted our strategy to focus on developing over Srebrenica Memorial Week webinars and online learning with the since the previous year.

Lessons From Professor in Community and Criminal Srebrenica Programme Justice at De Montfort University and Our ‘Lessons from Srebrenica’ visits Chair of the Remembering Srebrenica East Srebrenica Flower programme seeks to counter division Midlands Board, 12 students took part on The creation of Srebrenica flowers was a through inspiring people to take action in our programme as part of the first ever popular activity this year, with many young their local communities, by learning how DMU Glocal trip. people and adults taking part in remembrance a seemingly integrated society in Europe using this form. We created a video highlighting imploded due to unchallenged extremism The results from the post-visit survey was some of the submissions on social media from and hatred. Through these four-day overwhelmingly positive and underlines schools and children across the country. educational visits to Srebrenica, we aim the powerful impact that the programme to motivate people of all backgrounds to continues to have on changing the attitudes strengthen their communities. We do this and behaviours of participants. Over 90% through asking that each individual who of respondents strongly agreed or agreed joins us in visiting Srebrenica becomes our with the statement ‘I am now more Community Champion for social justice, conscious of the consequences of hatred making a concrete social action pledge to and intolerance in our society’ and on do something positive in their communities a scale from 1 (least likely) to 5 (most to challenge hatred and intolerance. The likely). Furthermore, over 90% answered ‘Lessons from Srebrenica’ programme the following statement with either inspires and empowers individuals to create 4 or 5 which represents highly likely/ social actions projects to unite communities. definitely when asked: ‘how likely were you after participating in the delegation Due to Covid-19, we were only able to to organise activities to raise awareness take out one delegation this year. Working of discrimination or organise a project to closely with Kim Sadique, Associate bring people together?’

8 9 Our Impact Case Study: Northern Ireland Memorial Tree Planting They were joined by Mevlida Lazibi who lost at Stormont 36 family members in the genocide and Conflict Transformation and We are grateful to the six main political who travelled from London to take part in Srebrenica Programme parties in Northern Ireland who supported the memorial event. Mevlida presented the In partnership with Mid and East Antrim the planting of a memorial tree on the Ministers with the Srebrenica Flower and said: Borough Council, Remembering Srebrenica Stormont Estate in to mark the 25th has developed a pioneering Conflict anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica. “I hope that the tree serves as a living Transformation and Srebrenica programme The ceremony was attended by Junior reminder that genocide like Srebrenica to be delivered to 40 young leaders aged Ministers Declan Kearney and Gordon Lyons can still happen in Europe. I also hope 18-24 in the Mid and East Antrim council cultural diversity is celebrated and people as well as the Minister for Finance, Conor that as a living memorial to the thousands area. The special programme is comprised can live, learn and socialise together, free Murphy who said: of innocent victims who lost their lives of a series of workshops, a residential and from prejudice, hate and intolerance. in Srebrenica, it grows a bond between visits to Bosnia to see and hear first hand “This memorial within the Northern Ireland and Bosnia as two regions the causes, impact and lessons of the Balkan The first phase of the project visited Bosnia grounds of the Stormont coming out of conflict supporting each other conflict. The aim is to promote positive and Srebrenica in October 2019, with the in their pursuit of peace and reconciliation”. relations characterised by respect where second phase launched in 2020. Estate is a lasting tribute to those who lost their lives You can find out more about in the Srebrenica genocide the impact that Remembering and to the Mothers of Srebrenica is having in the region Srebrenica who have by watching our short video titled tirelessly campaigned for ‘Voices from Northern Ireland’ on our website and Youtube channel. justice and reconciliation.”

Survivors Visit to Belfast Their visit was featured heavily in the media Thanks to support from Belfast City with both taking to the airwaves on BBC Council, the President of the Association Good Morning Ulster and local community of the Mothers of Srebrenica and Žepa television station NVTV. Enclaves Munira Subašić and Remembering Srebrenica’s Bosnia Country Coordinator, Elmina Kulašić were invited to take part in a number of events in Belfast at the beginning of March 2020.

Munira and Elmina spoke at Belfast City Hall at an event featuring senior political, community and faith leaders and met with key politicians including the Junior Ministers at the Executive Office, the High Sheriff and Lord Mayor at Belfast City Hall. They also spoke to school pupils at Girdwood Community Hub which has been built on a former army barracks site as a shared space

through funding from the European Union Junior Ministers, Declan Kearney and Gordon Lyons joined by Finance Minister, Conor Murphy and Srebrenica and addressed civil servants at Stormont. Survivor, Mevlida Lazibi to plant a memorial tree in Stormont.

10 11 Theme for 2021: Rebuilding Lives Every year, Remembering Srebrenica and inspiring given what they went through. The unprecedented increase in recorded The ‘Rebuilding Lives’ selects a theme that reflects an We, therefore, hope that the theme of hate crime in the UK in the last few aspect of the genocide that must be ‘Rebuilding Lives’ will bring communities years serves as a stark reminder that we theme will illustrate the commemorated, but also speaks to together to remember and learn from the cannot afford to be complacent about role that individuals, communities here in the UK. past to help build stronger, safer and more the challenges that threaten community cohesive society here in the UK. cohesion. It underlines the importance organisations and The theme for 2021 is ‘Rebuilding Lives’. of remaining vigilant against these forces nations have played and taking positive action to strengthen In albeit very different ways the Covid The unprecedented communities, as the lessons from in enabling those pandemic has brought loss and difficulties increase in recorded Srebrenica show us that no society is who have survived to millions, shattering individuals and invulnerable to prejudice and intolerance. communities, who are now looking hate crime in the UK genocide to rebuild to rebuild their lives. And as we move in the last few years The process of rebuilding lives for their lives whilst forwards to rebuilding our communities those who have experienced hatred in the wake of the many health and serves as a stark and discrimination is one in which our encouraging others economic challenges which people with reminder that we communities must play an active part. to reflect upon their divisive agendas are all too keen to exploit, From the police to the judiciary, to we will remember the spirit of survivors cannot afford to be schools, to government institutions and own responsibilities who, despite the horrendous hatred complacent about civic society, each and every one of us in countering hatred, and destruction they were subjugated to has an important contribution to make in themselves, have been rebuilding their the challenges that helping to create resilient communities intolerance and lives with dignity, humanity and without threaten community and show that the pernicious forces of genocide denial. calling for retribution or promoting division hatred and intolerance will not prevail. or hatred. This is all the more remarkable cohesion. The theme will also illustrate the role that have played in enabling those who have individuals, organisations and nations survived genocide to rebuild their lives whilst encouraging others to reflect upon their own responsibilities in countering hatred, intolerance and genocide denial. For example, over the past 20 years, the UK has committed over £2.5 million of funding to million projects in Bosnia dealing with the aftermath 2 of the Srebrenica genocide, including towards people were displaced during the the construction of the Srebrenica-Potočari genocide and ethnic cleansing in Genocide Memorial Centre. Bosnia in the 1990s. Furthermore, the British government has also committed over £4 million of funding to find those still missing from all sides of the 1990s conflicts in the Western Balkans and has contributed to achieving 10,000 justice for the victims of these conflicts people approximately came by working for, with, and alongside, the ICTY and the IRMCT. The UK continues to to the UK to seek refuge from provide financial support to the IRMCT ‘Lessons From Srebrenica’ delegate with a Mother of Srebrenica. Bosnia and Herzegovina. through their UN contributions.

12 13 What You Can Do in 2022

The UK’s Srebrenica Memorial Week in 2022 remember both the victims and survivors of will run from 4th to 11th July 2022 and see the Srebrenica genocide. We have a template hundreds of community actions taking programme, presentation and speech with place around the country, each organised some content which you can adapt to suit the by ordinary people who want to stand up nature of your event. against hatred. Some suggestions of what you can do include: 4 Police We have significantly increased our 1 Srebrenica Memorial Week engagement with police forces to try and You can take part in Srebrenica Memorial address the rising levels of hate crime across Week by organising a memorial event or the UK. The lessons from Srebrenica highlight an activity. There is no singular way to the importance of tackling prejudice and Interfaith Peace Walk in Birmingham. commemorate the victims and honour the intolerance before it escalates, and the need survivors of Srebrenica, and each event to root out the underlying causes of all forms Similarly, many British families joined and activity is unique to the community of hate crime, as a failure to act can allow such Mosques, Church halls and community with whom it is held. We have bespoke levels of hatred to flourish with devastating centres in showing generosity and kindness resources that can be used to organise a consequences. We have developed a bespoke in offering to accommodate survivors until commemoration either online or in person. ‘Hate Crime and the Stages of Genocide’ they were able to be resettled into their £2.5m resource available on our webiste. new accommodation. Charities such as worth of funding has been 2 Education the British Red Cross, and Refugee Action committed by the UK to projects Remembering Srebrenica has a new range 5 Faith organised the reception and settlement in Bosnia and Herzegovina. of teaching resources for primary and Commemorating Srebrenica within your place of Bosnians, and hundreds of volunteers secondary schools to download and use of worship is a powerful and often meaningful made survivors feel welcome by helping free-of-charge. Topics include the Srebrenica way to connect people with the lessons with tasks such as enrolling children in We have seen the genocide, form time activities to encourage from Srebrenica. Whether you observe schools, supporting adults start courses in positive impact that reflection on issues such as hatred and the Srebrenica genocide through prayers, English as well as assisting with duties such intolerance, and lessons on the Bosnian War. sermons, or sharing stories in your place as filling in administrative forms. commemorating All lessons include survivor testimony and of worship, we have ready made materials are focused on empowering young people to suitable for different faiths. We have seen the positive impact that Srebrenica in the UK reflect on the lessons from Srebrenica and commemorating Srebrenica in the UK can can have in terms bring them into their own lives. 6 Raise Awareness have in terms of bringing people together If you are an organisation, you can join our to reflect on the importance of tackling of bringing people 3 Local Authorities existing group of supporters in publishing hatred and intolerance, and the theme together to reflect Local authorities are uniquely connected to a statement of commemoration on your for 2021 will no doubt go a long way in individuals and organisations in their area website to mark Srebrenica Memorial Day and empowering individuals with the skills and on the importance of and by commemorating Srebrenica Memorial show your commitment to rejecting hatred knowledge not only to stand up to hatred tackling hatred and Day they can bring communities together and promoting equality for all. but also to help in building stronger, more either online, or in person in a single act of cohesive communities for all. intolerance Each and remembrance to encourage everyone to If you are interested in organising everyone of us has an reject hatred and help build more cohesive an activity to commemorate in 2022, Remembering Srebrenica’s 2021 communities. From publishing a statement please get in touch with a member theme was launched online in important contribution on a website and social media, lighting up of the team who will be able to February 2021 and can be viewed to make in order to a building in green and white or flying the support your idea by emailing on our Facebook page. Srebrenica flag from the town hall, councils [email protected] help rebuild lives. can play an important role to honour and

14 15 Special Thanks

We would like to thank the MHCLG for part- Patrons funding Remembering Srebrenica and our Rt Hon Lord Jim Wallace of Tankerness QC eight regional boards and three country Rt Hon Baroness Warsi boards for their tireless work to remember, Rt Hon Baroness D’Souza CMG learn and pledge. We are pleased that the Baroness Hussein-Ece OBE Scottish Government funds Remembering Baroness Alicia Kennedy of Cradley Srebrenica Scotland through its ‘Promoting Julie Adair Abi Carter Baroness Mobarik CBE Equality and Cohesion’ Fund. *Chair of Scotland Co-Chair of Wales Baroness Hodgson of Abinger CBE Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon OBE Rt Hon Ian Blackford MP Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP Nusrat Ghani MP Martin Vickers MP Yasmin Qureshi MP Nigel Evans MP Saleem Kidwai OBE Peter Osborne Lucy Adams Smajo Bešo Co-Chair of Wales Chair of Co-Chair of the Co-Chair of the Afzal Khan MP Northern Ireland North East North East Saqib Bhatti MP

Trustees Dr Waqar Azmi OBE, Chair His Excellency Vanja Filipović Dr Sabiha Shahid-Azmi Moin Azmi Dr Helen Connolly Jo Richmond Dr Helen Connolly Kim Sadique Rameez Kaleem John Short Chair of Yorkshire Chair of Chair of East Midlands Chair of London East of England and South East Remembering Srebrenica Staff Amil Khan, Director Kate Williams, Deputy Director Education and Operations Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura, Deputy Director for Communications and Commemorations Amra Mujkanović, Events Manager Francesca Cleverly, Senior Operations Officer—Visits and Executive Support Rhona Jackson, Project Officer Dr Louise Livesey Elinor Chohan MBE DL Chief Superintendent, Elmina Kulašić, BiH Country Director Chair of South West Chair of North West Mat Shaer Chair of West Midlands John Allison, Senior Operations Officer (until March 2021) Joshua Pritchard, Project Officer (until July 2020)

*Remembering Srebrenica Scotland is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation funded by the Scottish Government.

With thanks to the support of

16 17 Messages of Support

“By remembering the pain of the past and learning its lessons, we can together resolve that it must never happen again. This is why the work of organisations such as Remembering Srebrenica is so vitally important”. His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales

“Many perpetrators have still not been held to account and there are those who would prefer to forget or deny the enormity of what took place. We must not allow that to happen. We owe it to the victims and to future generations to remember Srebrenica and to ensure it never happens again”. Boris Johnson, Prime Minister

“Let’s use Srebrenica Memorial Day and the memory of Srebrenica to not only remember those we have lost but to educate our future generations, bring our communities together and renew our efforts to tackle hatred and prejudice wherever they lie”. Sir , Leader of the Opposition

“The work of Remembering Srebrenica serves as a fitting reminder of the importance of everyone in society recognising our shared responsibility to ensure that diversity is celebrated and protected. Everyone, regardless of their race, faith or nationality, should feel safe and be safe in their own communities”. Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland

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