Has Europe learned from the Serbian genocide in Srebrenica in 1995? Is the wound from the loss of thousands of sons, fathers and grandfathers curable?
BGNES spoke in Potocari with Munira Subasic, president of the "Mothers of Srebrenica" association, the voice of countless innocent victims and their surviving relatives.
Munira gave a speech before the UN and met with a number of politicians - from Bill Clinton to today's envoy of the international community in Bosnia - Christian Schmidt.
However, there are few people she allows in her home. Hers are the strength and courage to tell the shocking story of the murders of her own husband and son, to describe the fate of the thousands massacred by Serbian forces in 1995 in Srebrenica, a genocide not seen since World War II.
Munira pours us coffee - black as the ground in which the bones of 7,000 people are buried. The high temperature suffocates you in Srebrenica and Potocari... there you meet the face of death.
Subasic warned that the tragedy could be repeated and Europe put at risk again because the "sons" of Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic thrive in politics.
"The world and Europe are responsible for all this. Nowhere in the world is there a greater injustice than what was done against the Bosniaks. A genocide was committed against them. Every person with common sense knows that" Munira stressed and added:
"Alexander Vucic is like Milosevic's son, they are so alike. And do you see what kind of nationalist Viktor Orbán is? He is Milosevic number 2. And as for Dodik, it would be easy if there was only one, but there are thousands like him. They tell jokes about our dead. They claim that there was no massacre and that the dead actually fled somewhere abroad and that is why they are gone.”
The 76-year-old woman said the world and Europe had learned nothing from the massacres throughout history and were responsible for the genocide against Bosniaks.
"Nowhere in the world is there a greater injustice than what was done against Bosniaks. Genocide was committed against them. "Any sane person knows that," she stated.
Subasic said that the bereaved women wrote letters, protested and even "attacked" local and international institutions in order to find out the fate of their children:
"We wanted to know where our children were, then we found out they were dead. When we weren't sure, we wanted evidence, because there were no bodies, at least to give us the bones. Every mother should find her son's remains and give them a dignified burial."
"Two things are most important to us - to find the bones of our sons and to know the name of every criminal who must be brought to justice," she noted.
Munira recalled that the political and military leader of Republika Srpska since the 1990s received five life sentences, including Radovan Karadzic and Radko Mladic.
However, no one can bring back the dead. Of them, only the bones remained in the mountain of graves of the Memorial Center in Potochari.
"5,500 children were orphaned after the fall of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995. These children witnessed murder and rape, and some were born from their murdered pregnant mothers," shared Munira.
Despite everything, mothers from Srebrenica raise their children not to hate and not to seek revenge.
Today these children are engineers, doctors and intellectuals who do not seek hatred.
"My son was a good student, he knew German. They killed him at the age of 17. They found two bones from him, nothing else remained. Genocide cannot be erased from history," Munira said.
Expect the full interview with Munira Shubašić soon. /BGNES
