There is no museum or memorial in the world facing the conditions that the Srebrenica Memorial Center is enduring. We quite literally woke up to find that state authority had been "canceled" overnight. Our normal environment is one of frequent and open denial, discrimination, and obstruction.
Most recently, local Serb authorities denied us permission to film the site of a mass execution, claiming that "no crime was committed there." We are regularly targeted by local Serb extremist media, as well as by public figures and politicians at both the local and national levels. And now, with central state authority openly denied, we find ourselves under the rule of the very institutions and political forces responsible for the Bosnian genocide in the first place.
In this legal uncertainty, where those responsible refuse to take measures to restore the legal framework upon which our presence in Srebrenica is predicated, our very existence there is in question. The decision to close down was made at the moment when Bosnian mainstream media were reporting that state police were being disarmed and taken over by the Bosnian Serb police across various locations in the RS. No one from higher up was telling us if that was true or not and what to do. We were all alone. The decision was borne out by the events, as the threat is still present and the Bosnian Serb police operate outside the laws of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In my capacity as Director, I couldn’t risk the safety of a group of survivors to find themselves in the same circumstances they had already endured in 1992. This year we are marking the 30th anniversary of the genocide, we put all our energy into ensuring that it is organized with respect and dignity. We are a memorial, a place of remembrance and learning. Deniers and revisionists are endangering a memorial - even our memory is a problem to them. But they will not succeed, and I urge all our friends and allies across the world to let them know that. Our purpose is far greater than our own memory, it is engraved in world history, and can never be diminished or erased.
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