The mayor of Srebrenica, Mladen Grujičić, said that this year two commemorations for the victims of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be held in that city, with the assessment that the war scars in that area will not heal for a long time.
"We Serbs, from July 7 to 12, remember our over 3.500 who died from 1992 to 1995 in Podrinje, with cultural and sports events and a commemoration in the village of Zalazje," Grujičić told the Večernje Novosti newspaper.
The commemoration for the killed Bosniaks will be held on July 11 in Potočari, and Grujičić states that he has not received information about who will participate, with the assessment that "even 28 years after the end of the war, peace has not fully returned to Srebrenica".
He stated that on the eve of that commemoration, the situation in the city, in contrast to the period until 2018, is calm and that "there are no threats from Bosniaks".
"We still understand their pain, and they still don't understand ours," Grujicic said, stating that the non-governmental organization Mother Srebrenica is "an engine of hatred among people."
In the Memorial Center of Srebrenica - Potočari, on July 11, the anniversary of the genocide against Bosniaks committed by Serbian forces in July 1995 will be marked. According to various sources, between 5.000 and more than 8.000 Bosniaks were killed then.
During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, around 3.500 Serbs were killed in central Podrinje, for which no one was held accountable.
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