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…
Braes High School pupils remember Holocaust and genocide victims
Pupils at Braes High School participated in a poignant service to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The event was led by students, Emma Mackay and Tabitha Sear (both 17), who visited Polish concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau last year as part of the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Lessons from Auschwitz project. Read more at:
Holocaust Memorial Day
Remembering Srebrenica (Scotland) [now ‘Beyond Srebrenica’] 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…
Honorary Degree for Bakira
Bakira Hasečić, a survivor of ethnic cleansing from Višegrad in Bosnia-Herzgovina was presented with an honorary doctorate from Glasgow Caledonian University. This honour was bestowed on Bakira Hasečić in recognition of Bakira’s efforts as a human rights advocate and unifying force for victims of wartime sexual violence. Bakira was presented the award by the recently…
Painting Life After Death
A film by Michael Hough and Emma Sanders on the art of our Vice Chair Robert McNeil MBE, a Forensic Specialist who worked in Bosnia and gifted Artist who painted about it later.
“We hope that those seeing the film will feel enriched by seeing and hearing the experience of one man who discovered, through painting, a way of speaking out for those who suffered and who continue to suffer as a result of the Srebrenica atrocities. It will demonstrate one man’s journey to rediscover the power of art and how he continues to make a contribution through his art, to those who still suffer in some way.”
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) [now ‘Beyond Srebrenica’] 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…
