Saturday, September 22, 2007

SREBRENICA GENOCIDE MEMORIAL CENTRE MARKS FOURTH ANNIVERSARY

SREBRENICA, Bosnia (September 22,2007) – Thursday has marked exactly four years since former US President Bill Clinton opened the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Centre.The Memorial Centre Steering Board met on this occasion to analyse the four years of the Centre’s existence.

The Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Centre Director Mersed Smajlovic said that they have completed planned activities on building a memorial wall with the names of the genocide victims, opening the Memorial Room and putting up postaments with the message “That Srebrenica Never Repeats to Anyone Ever Again”.

2.907 genocide victims have been buried in the Memorial Centre during the past four years and some 2.000 identical headstones have been erected.

Activities on implementing the idea of the final appearance of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Centre will be continued in the upcoming period.

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