(10 Jul 2025)
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Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina – 10 July 2025
1. Various of Srebrenica memorial cemetery
2. Various of gravediggers
3. Mid of freshly dug grave
4. Mid of gravestones
5. Massacre survivor Hasiba Ademovic praying in cemetery
6. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Hasiba Ademovic, massacre survivor:
“I lost my husband, brother-in-law, my father and two brothers (in the massacre). They were all killed. I stayed alone with five daughters, five little girls. The youngest was only 5 months old.”
7. Ademovic in cemetery
8. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Hasiba Ademovic, massacre survivor:
“Just look around you, all these people were killed in a day or two, and that tells you everything about what happened in Srebrenica, about how everyone was killed.”
9. Ademovic praying next to a grave
10. Various aerial shots of cemetery ++MUTE++
11. Wide of people looking at artefacts recovered from mass graves
12. Various of artefacts
13. Wide of exhibition
14. Various of artefacts
15. Mid of woman looking at artefacts
16. Various of artefacts
17. Wide of exhibition hall
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Henk van den Dool, Dutch Ambassador to Bosnia:
“This morning we have opened a new exhibition in the memorial center. The exhibition is called “Lives Behind the Fields of Death.” It is a unique exhibition in that it highlights individual stories and individual lives and it does that by showing artefacts belonging to victims, artefacts which have been found in mass graves, sometimes found in the forest etc, and it does that by telling individual stories, giving testimonies on video of survivors, showing us that genocide is not about facts and figures and statistics but a genocide is about individual people, individual lives, young people, older people, men, women, people with dreams and people with ambitions that have been cut short by this genocide.”
19. People entering exhibition
20. Wide of exhibition
STORYLINE:
Fresh graves were dug in Srebrenica on Thursday to serve as the final resting place for seven recently identified victims of the 1995 massacre in the eastern Bosnian town.
Ahead of the funeral on Friday, expected to be attended by thousands of people, a massacre survivor, Hasiba Ademovic, visited the graves of her loved ones who are among over 6,700 victims already buried at the cemetery.
“I lost my husband, brother-in-law, my father and two brothers (in the massacre). They were all killed. I stayed alone with five daughters, five little girls. The youngest was only 5 months old,” Ademovic said.
“Just look around you, all these people were killed in a day or two, and that tells you everything about what happened in Srebrenica, about how everyone was killed,” she added while standing surrounded by rows upon rows of white marble gravestones.
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.
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. The massacre is Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II.
As part of events commemorating the 30th anniversary of the massacre an exhibition dubbed “Lives Behind the Fields of Death” was opened Thursday in the memorial complex.
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