July 11, 1995
Today, we remember the 8,372 Bosniak men and boys murdered in the genocide at Srebrenica.
They were not statistics.
They had names. Families. Dreams. Futures that were stolen.
More than three decades later, mothers are still burying sons whose remains continue to be identified from mass graves. Some families have waited decades simply to lay a few recovered bones to rest.
Memory is not vengeance.
Memory is justice.
Memory is the promise that those who were murdered will never be erased, and that those who survived will never stand alone.
We remember because forgetting is the final victory of genocide.
We remember because denial is its final chapter.
Today, Bosnia stands still.
We say their names.
We carry their memory.
Never forgotten. Never denied.
Srebrenica. 11 July 1995.
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