NEVER FORGET SREBRENICA   

                                         

   I chose this topic because I have an special interest about Balkan Countries particularly Bosnia . Bosnia was part of the Ottoman Empire until 1878 .I think we have very strong historical, social, cultural and human ties with Bosnia, and I want to remind everyone again Srebrenica genocide.

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In the Bosnian silver-mining town of Srebrenica in July 1995, one of the most notorious modern acts of gendercide took place. While the international community and U.N. peacekeepers looked on, Serb forces separated civilian men from women and killed thousands of men en masse, or hunted them down in the forests.
    I don't know how much of you knows what happened to our brothers and sisters during the agresion on Bosnia and Herzegovina. his is horrible, how stupid the Bosnian Serbs were to do such a thing, and how stupid that whole war was here happened the biggest massacre on muslim people in Europe and also was one of the biggest in the world. My heart goes for shaheeds of town Srebrenica where were killed more than 8.000 muslim males ages 15-60 in one day. Mothers lost all of her sons, husbands, brothers, fathers... in one day . Womans were raped,killed.,slaughtered.
Every year on july 11, they exhumate and buried, about 500 bodies. Many of them are still not indentified, not found... And it will take them more than 10-15 up comming years to bury them all..
I think this event is the biggest war crime to take place in Europe since the end of the second world war. Srebrenica witnessed the most traumatic tragedy of recent history. Bosnians were killed because they were considered “Turkish.” That characteristic of the massacre affect my feelings deeply.I share deeply the grief of the families of the victims of the Srebrenica genocide committed in 1995 and strongly condemn once again this heinous crime against humanity that resulted in the murder of more than 8,000 of our Bosniac brothers

   I can never fully feel the pain that their families feel, but I share it with them.Although it has been 16 years since the massacre, Srebrenica is still mournful like a lamenting mother.

   I think it is very painful to understand how a human being can separate children from their mothers, husbands from their wives, brothers from their sisters and punish them to death, just for being different nation, religious.

   8,372 pair of shoes for 8,372 massacred me

  Reminding us of this bitter experience of the past, the Association of Bosniak Youth (Genç Bosnaklar Dernegi), made a project named "8372..." to condemn the role of the United Nations in the Srebrenica Genocide. Its aim is to collect 8,372 pairs of shoes that was presented in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey from July 9-10, 2011                            

   July 11 marks the 16th anniversary of the genocide perpetrated by Serbs in Srebrenica, a town in Bosnia-Herzegovina. A protest has been held in İstanbul by the Young Bosnians Association to condemn the Srebrenica massacre. Protestors displayed 8,372 pairs of shoes to commemorate the 8, 372 victims of the massacre.
   It think i t is a really nice idea, because it is important to put something tangible in front of people. Thus, in order to portray genocide, you have to present concrete objects. I think that idea to collect shoes is a really good way for people to imagine what 8,372 murdered people means.