The Bosnian Crisis On 23rd February 2022, we hosted a panel session with His Excellency Vanja Filipovic, Bosnian Ambassador to UK and Ireland, Almira Delibegovic-Broome QC and Marsaili Fraser, Remembering Srebrenica Scotland Trustees and experts in Bosnia. The event took place in Sogo Arts in Glasgow where photographer Chris Leslie was displaying his Balkan Journey…
A Balkan Journey- Chris Leslie
Our friend Chris Leslie is displaying his exhibition A Balkan Journey in SOGO Art Gallery, Saltmarket Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland82-86 Saltmarket, Glasgow G1 5LY https://sogoarts.com14th Jan – 28th February 2022 Chris, a Scot, is a BAFTA Scotland (New Talent) Award Winning photographer and filmmaker. He began taking photographs whilst volunteering in the Former Yugoslavia in 1996. He then…
Holocaust Memorial Day 2022
Remembering Srebrenica Scotland was honoured to join St Andrews University Jewish Society at an interfaith memorial event to remember all those killed in genocide. The event took place at St Andrews pier and was addressed by the leaders of different diversity groups. RSS Secretary David Hamilton spoke to the group about the Srebrenica genocide and…
Scotland is the “coolest nation on Earth”, Bosnian N1 Journalist, Ika Ferrer Gotic
Our Secretary David Hamilton was interviewed by N1 Journalist Ika Ferrer Gotić after she returned home from Glasgow COP26. In the chat that followed Ika shared her affection for Scotland after meeting so many kind Scots.This was picked up by Scottish media and shared by thousands of her new Scottish Twitter fans.Ika has also interviewed…
Reflections on Mladic and Kelvingrove Exhibition- STV
This report was screened on 8th June 2021 on Scotland Tonight. it reflects on the judgement of the UNIRCMT in rejecting Mladic’s appeal against his conviction in 2017 for war crimes committed nearly 30 years ago.
White Armband Day
Monday 31st May 2021 is White Armband Day. Why not wear one and when people ask…..
Saved by a stranger
A beautiful documentary featuring Clare Findlay, who took in 21 refugee children – many of whom she was told were orphans – from war torn Bosnia. The local community in Elgin, Scotland rallied round to welcome them, but it was only when international schoolgirl Petra came to translate that the children were able to properly…
25th Anniversary Address
Our Chair Very Rev Dr Lorna Hood OBE, talks about the work of Remembering Srebrenica Scotland in confronting hate speech through education, delegations and memorials.
Dragana Vucetic – from the I D Campbell Collection
Dr. Dragana Vucetic works as Senior Forensic Pathologist for the International Commission on Missing Persons. The ICMP has helped identify almost 90 percent of the 8,000 men and boys whose bodies were missing because of the Srebrenica Genocide. On the 11th of July 1995, when Serbian forces massacred the men and boys of Srebrenica, they…
Hasan Hasanović – from the I D Campbell Collection
On the 11 th of July 1995, the Serbian Army attacked the town of Srebrenica. Twin brothers, Hasan and Husein Hasanović, were 19 at the time. That night, the brothers along with their father and uncle, were among the 10,000 to 15,000 men and boys who set off in a column through the hills and…
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Thank you, @mdelibeg and your daughter. 🇧🇦🏴
Mother and daughter reading for the Holocaust Memorial Day in Aberdeen Art Gallery last Friday. Proud of my daughter reading this powerfull entry from Zlata's Diary. Courtesy of the photographer Norman Adams from Aberdeen City Council 🕯️
Our Treasurer was in Sarajevo re-establishing relationships post- pandemic, continuing @julietadair 's work to pave the way for the restart of our Lessons of Srebrenica programme and (apparently) geeing it yaldie on the dance floor!
What an incredible honour to be asked to deliver The Immortal Memory Toast at the Caledonian Society of Bosnia in #Sarajevo. 130 guests including Ambassadors, Diplomats, the High Representative and many wonderful Bosnians. #Scotland what a Global brand! 🏴🇧🇦
I spoke of the #OrdinaryPeople who had experienced the horrors of #genocide in Bosnia in 1990s and shared the words and unimaginable suffering of Bakira, Hasan, Hatidza
@RemSrebScot
#HMD2023 https://twitter.com/Aberdeenshire/status/1619036396437786624Colleagues and elected members were joined earlier today by pupils from @FraserburghAcad & @PortyAcad as we marked #HolocaustMemorialDay. You can now watch a recording of the event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v986Dir1FA
Great to see Sabina whose powerful testimony reminded us that genocide doesn't start overnight but with ordinary people who begin to dehumanise others. Great to hear politicians & young people determined to learn lessons of past. @Hello_Sabina @ScotGovFM @ChristinaSNP @HMD_UK
