July 10, 2009, Washington, DC: The Bosnian American Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BAACBH) will commemorate the 14th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide with an event on Capitol Hill today.
More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed on July 11, 1995, when Bosnian Serbs seized the city of Srebrenica, which had been a UN-protected safe haven during the conflict.
Today’s event will feature a clip from the film, “A Cry from the Grave,” as well as remarks from BAACBH Executive Director Elmina Kulasic; Damir Dzanko, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Bosnian Embassy; Bridget Conley-Zilkic, Director of Research and Projects at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Committee on Conscience; Trisha Rines, from the Office of Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson; and Nerina Cevra, International Advocacy Officer for Survivor Corps.
The event will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Rayburn House Office Building. BAACBH is a partner of The Advocacy Project.
As part of the event, BAACBH will also display a memorial quilt made by the women of Bosnian Family (BOSFAM), an AP partner based in Tuzla, Bosnia. Many of BOSFAM’s weavers lost relatives in the massacre and were displaced from their homes after the war in the 1990s. Each of the quilt’s panels honors an individual victim.
Posted By AP Staff
Posted Jul 10th, 2009