Gorčević in Srebrenica: As a Bosniak from Montenegro, I regret that history did not record the second sequence of events

As a Bosniak from Montenegro, but also as a mother and a human being, I regret that history did not record the second sequence of events, I regret that there were not enough people among those who had to be friends and neighbors and that reason did not overcome the sinister intentions whose consequences are irreversible, she said is the Minister of European Affairs, Maida Gorčević, in her address at the Potočari Memorial Center at the commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Srebrenica.

As announced by the Ministry of European Affairs, on behalf of Montenegro, she expressed her deepest sympathy with the families of the victims and respect for all those who persevere in the aspiration that the genocide in Srebrenica should never be forgotten.

She said that, "unfortunately, 29 years were not enough for all the victims of genocide to be buried with dignity and sent to their eternal rest".

She added that "this biggest war crime in Europe after the Second World War testifies to the limitlessness of human brutality and cruelty when the politics of hatred poisons society."

"Therefore, the anniversaries of this massacre must be an opportunity for memory and truth, because giving up the truth about the past means giving up a future freed from the fear that the same thing can happen again. And we can base a carefree future only on decisive opposition to the still strong, but fortunately unpopular, ideas about the superiority of one's own people or the inferiority of other peoples, ideas that insist on an ethnically homogeneous society and illusions that peace is overrated and war is expedient", said Gorčević.

Gorčević said that in the bleak everyday life in which human and children's war sufferings around the world selectively deserve compassion depending on the territory they are in, the challenge is to find a basis for optimism.

"But if we couldn't find something bright even in the darkest, it wouldn't be worth living," she concluded.

Today, the 29th anniversary of the genocide against the Bosniaks of Srebrenica was marked in Potočari, and 14 more identified victims of the genocide were buried.

The delegation of the Government of Montenegro, consisting of Gorčević, Minister of Labor and Social Welfare Naida Nišić and Minister of Education, Science and Innovation Anđela Jakšić Stojanović, as well as State Secretary in the Ministry of European Affairs Bojan Božović, attended the commemoration of July 11 - the Day of Remembrance of the Genocide in Srebrenica .