Rt Rev Colin Sinclair, Moderator of the General Assembly, said he hoped that reflecting on the Srebrenica massacre will help improve understanding of what can happen when intolerance and prejudice takes hold. Srebrenica–Potočari Memorial and Cemetery. He has written a special prayer to remember the atrocity in Bosnia which he hopes will be read out…
2019 Memorial Day
The 11th July 2019 marks the 24th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide. Only 50 years after the holocaust and the world’ s determination of “never again”, 8372 Bosnian men and boys were systematically executed in a preplanned operation to ethnically cleanse the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica. Remembering Srebrenica Scotland is an Scottish educational Charity…
Robert McNeill reveals his latest painting
Our Vice Chair Robert McNeill has revealed his latest painting, days after war criminal Radovan Karadzic had his sentence increased. The narrative is: A woman ethnically cleansed by the Serbs from the Prijedor area, protective of her children clutches a smashed photo of her once happy family, her only possession after being forced to sign…
RSS visits St Bridgets
On 18th March 2019, our Vice Chair Robert McNeil visited St Bridget’s Primary School to talk to the Primary 7 children. Teacher Moira MacLeod wrote to us, “Thanks for a really interesting talk today for our two p7 classes. The children (and me) learned a great deal and you have given us a lot to…
2019 Theme Announcement
We have announced our theme for 2019 “Bridging the Divide : Confronting Hate” The video below explains its background and also notifies our supporters of the Memorial Event we are hoolding at Glasgow Caledonian University on Thursday 30th May 2019. Further details will appear on this website.
Srebrenica Presentations to Prisoners
Our Vice Chair Robert McNeil, has recently been delivering presentations on Srebrenica to prisoners at HMP Barlinnie an HMP Low Moss. HMP Barlinnie: “I remember watching the images of prisoners in the concentration camp on News at Ten. It was like watching something from Auschwitz during WW2. It was hard…
Holocaust Memorial Day
Remembering Srebrenica (Scotland) were honoured to share an event with the Holocaust Memorial Trust to mark Holocaust Memorial Day at the Scottish Parliament on 22nd January 2019. Our Chair Lorna Hood spoke at the event and Vice Chair Robert McNeil contributed display materials.
Robert McNeils Latest Painting
Our Vice Chair Robert McNeil’s latest painting depicts an element of the terror experienced by thousands of half starved women, children and the elderly, escaping the Bosnian Serb army after being ethnically cleansed from Srebrenica in July 1995 following a prolonged siege that began in 1993. As this was happening, over 8 thousand of their…
Forensic specialists now start to share their experiences of Srebrenica Genocide-20 years on.
In September 2016 I had the privilege of leading a group of international forensic experts on behalf of Remembering Srebrenica (Scotland) who worked in Bosnia in the 1990s and early 2000s on behalf of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). It was the 20th anniversary of the first deployments to investigate the…
