(8 Jul 2025)
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Nezuk, Bosnia – 8 July 2025
1. Wide of people gathering for march
2. Various of people before the march
3. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Amir Kulaglic, survivor of the original July 1995 march to escape Srebrenica:
“I am the survivor of this path, march of dead, from Srebrenica to village Nezuk. My trip lasted for seven days and eight nights. And today I’m here so I can see my son, Sultan, on this walking path.”
4. Kulaglic with his son Sultan
5. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Amir Kulaglic, survivor of the original July 1995 march to escape Srebrenica:
“I have mixed feelings today, but it’s because I can’t walk today because of my health condition. At the same time, I am very proud that my son, and my cousin will walk on this path today, the same path I took in 1995.”
6. Kulaglic with his son
7. Various of people gathering for the march
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nirha Music, originally from Srebrenica, but resides in United States:
“And we are walking to participate in the ‘Marš mira’ (March of Peace), to see what our people went through.”
9. Various of Nirha talking to other attendees
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Nirha Music, originally from Srebrenica, resident of USA:
“It’s not easy, just seeing big crowd of people like this, it’s not like anything you experience daily. Or even when you travel you don’t see this many people in one location together, and all I can think about it is, this is how it was when they were killing us, and when they were getting us together to kill us, just in bigger masses. That’s all you can think about and compare it to the pictures that you see on the internet."
11. People gathered in the woods to begin march
12. Various of march through the mountains
13. Various drone shots of the march ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Thousands of people joined the ‘Marš mira’, or March for Peace, an annual event marking the anniversary of Srebrenica genocide, where marchers take on the paths of the Srebrenica victims’ escape from the surrounded enclave in 1995.
People from all over the world came to pay tribute to the victims, but also to feel the compassion towards the victims, most of whom were killed on this route by Serb forces in July 1995.
Among them was Amir Kulaglic, a survivor of the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre who hid in the same woods 20 years ago to escape the killings.
“I am the survivor of this path, march of dead, from Srebrenica to Nezuk village. My trip lasted for seven days and eight nights," he said. Although he could not march along with the others Tuesday because of health reasons, he said he was still proud to see his son and cousin following in his footsteps. "Today I’m here so I can see my son, Sultan, on this walking path," he told the Associated Press.
On July 11, 1995, Serbs overran Srebrenica, at the time a U.N.-protected safe area. They separated at least 8,000 Bosniak men and boys from their wives, mothers and sisters and slaughtered them. Those who tried to escape were chased through the woods and over the mountains around town
Bosniak women and children were packed onto buses and expelled.
The executioners tried to erase the evidence of their crime, plowing the bodies into hastily dug mass graves and scattering them among other burial sites.
The Srebrenica killings were the crescendo of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, which came after the breakup of Yugoslavia unleashed nationalist passions and territorial ambitions that set Bosnian Serbs against the country’s two other main ethnic populations — Croats and Bosniaks.
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