https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Vk8CVDhto
So you may have noticed I haven't posted anything this summer. In fact, I haven't posted anything on any social media. The day the documentary came out I decided that I was so embarrassed about sobbing my heart out on national tv that I needed to re evaluate what my priorities were. I spend too much time thinking about how I project myself that I forget the things that really matter, looking after myself and trying to change for the better.
Here are just some photos from the whole summer, various things to show you what I've been doing! :)
I know I know, not many, but I've had a good summer, been working non stop!
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Here are just some photos from the whole summer, various things to show you what I've been doing! :)
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This Gallery is an emotional place, with distressing photographs and memories that will make you weep. Its not for everyone but if you want to learn more about the atrocities of 95 it is a must see.
The permanent exhibition provides documentary scenes of what was left of Srebrenica in the wake of this genocide. With photographs and videos of the “wall of death”, family portraits, scenes of survivors lives, the scattered and gathered remains of the victims, and offensive graffiti, the gallery portrays the impossible justice and the abolition of time split between Anne Frank and the women of Srebrenica.
Visitors of the Gallery 11/07/95 are not just passive observers of the exhibit – they are living witnesses to the horror and injustice.
Through a wide range of multimedia content – images, maps, audio and video materials, the Gallery aims to offer its visitors the documentary and artistic interpretation of the events that took place during July 1995."
Visitors of the Gallery 11/07/95 are not just passive observers of the exhibit – they are living witnesses to the horror and injustice.
Through a wide range of multimedia content – images, maps, audio and video materials, the Gallery aims to offer its visitors the documentary and artistic interpretation of the events that took place during July 1995."
I thought I should leave you with a few photos from this gallery, now these photos are not mine, they belong to Tarik Samarah (the photographer) and I just got them off the internet, but I thought as so many people will have the chance to go to beautiful Sarajevo, it might be in your interests to see a few photos here.
I'm not sorry for the distressing content, it has to be seen. And although it may seem out of place on my blog, it is something so close to my heart that I had no choice but to share it. Especially today, the 11th July, marking 20 years exactly since the genocide.
Remember to keep the victims and their families in your thoughts today, as they are in mine everyday.
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Found a picture of me when I was little with my parents in 1995!
I thought I'd post it today because I'm spending the day with my Bosnia lot in Westminster as there is a ceremony for Srebrenica Memorial Day.
How weird do I look!!
I thought I'd post it today because I'm spending the day with my Bosnia lot in Westminster as there is a ceremony for Srebrenica Memorial Day.
How weird do I look!!
If you would like to show your support for Remembering Srebrenica please sign up here and let them send one tweet out from your account, just one I promise! We want as many people to sign up as possible so their message can reach the most people. The tweet will go out on the 11th July and will just say...
“20 years today since the Srebrenica genocide took place. I am remembering the 8,372 victims+survivors #Srebrenica2015http://thndr.it/1f4IFSv”
"The Service will commemorate the 8,372 men and boys massacred in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in July 1995, during the Balkans conflict of 1992 to 1995. The Service will also reflect on the lessons of Srebrenica in the 20th anniversary year of the genocide, and look with hope to the reconciliation of peoples and faiths.
In 1993, Srebrenica had been declared a UN Safe Area, under the watch of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR). In July 1995, Bosnian Serb paramilitary units overran and captured the town, despite its designation as an area 'free from any armed attack or any other hostile act.'
In the days following Srebrenica's fall, 8,372 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were systematically massacred and buried in mass graves. It was the greatest atrocity on European soil since the Second World War."
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