We have been on a whirlwind bus tour of the Balkans for the past 6 days. It has been non-stop. Our group was divided into two trips. One group went to Greece and Macedonia and the others went to Serbia and Bosnia Herzogovina. I am in that group. We did a visit to Srebrenica on June 23.
The visit was quite powerful. It was hard to look at the rows and rows of family members who were some of the more than 8,000 people killed in July 1995. Our tour guide managed to escape through the forest and his testimony was heart wrenching. The factory where the memorial is housed was the site of the Dutch UN Base where thousands of internally displaced people lived before they were forced to leave and killed.
The Srebrencia Memorial in Srebrenica, Serbia on July 23, 2016. There are more than 4,000 victims of the 1995 genocide whose remains have been found and buried on the site. The RIT-K students visited the memorial as part of a regional tour.PIctures by Tarik Samarah at the Srebrenica Memorial in Srebrencia, Serbia on June 23, 2016Brittainy Newman looks at a photo exhibit at the Srebrenica Memorial in Srebrenica, Serbia on July 23, 2016. The memorial commemorates the 1995 genocide of over 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks by the Serbian Army. The photo of the suicide of Ferida Osmanovic on the wall is by Darko Bandic.A view of the gravestones at the Srebrenica Memorial in Srebrenica, Serbia. There are more than 4,000 victims of the 1995 genocide whose remains have been found and buried on the site. The RIT-K students visited the memorial on July 23, 2016The names of all the people who are missing are listed on dozens of stones at the entrance of the Srebrenica Memorial in Srebrenica, Serbia. The RIT-K students visited the memorial on July 23, 2016Adriana Bhalla sits at the Srebrencia Memorial in Srebrenica, Serbia on July 23, 2016. There are more than 4,000 victims of the 1995 genocide whose remains have been found and buried on the site. The RIT-K students visited the memorial as part of a regional tour.
