Public action in mourning and silence, in Republic Square,
on July 10, 2025 (19:30 - 20:30)
- We Shall never forget the genocide in Srebrenica! Solidarity and responsibility - the installation of a symbolic/living memorial is the continuation of the construction of a monument to the victims of genocide, since our years-long persistent requests that the construction of a permanent monument to the victims of genocide in Srebrenica in Belgrade be approved were rejected.
„Serbia, look at yourself in the mirror: You will see Srebrenica!
30 years – 30 years of mirrors”
- Mirrors- because society refuses to look in the mirror, refuses to face the burden of crimes from the past and to build a society based on respect for the dignity of victims.
- Mirrors - thinking primarily about the victims, but also about ourselves: the society in whose name the crimes were committed should be looked at in the mirror of the victims, and that is what restores our humanity.
- Mirrors - it brings to light solidarity with victims, resistance to crimes, every kind of condemnation of instigators and perpetrators - moral, political, criminal-legal.
- 8372 – putting on the public stage the number of the killed in the genocide represents the recognition of judicially established facts. With this act, we symbolically inscribe into the collective memory what is denied/falsified/downplayed in the majority of the public in Serbia - the extent of the genocide in Srebrenica.
The Srebrenica genocide is the biggest war crime after World War II in Europe. The regime of S. Milošević was complicit in the genocide by providing enormous political, military and logistical-financial aid to the Army of Republika Srpska.
In Serbia, the continuity of denial of genocide is still at work both at the societal and state level. Women in Black and related organizations will continue to demand that the state of Serbia: respect the decisions of international courts, judicially determined facts, that the genocide be recognized and that the denial of the genocide be qualified as a criminal offense.
On May 23, 2024, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Resolution on the Genocide in Srebrenica, which declared July 11 as the International Day of Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide. Since the beginning of 2009, we have continuously demanded that July 11 be declared the Day of Remembrance of the Genocide in Srebrenica.
Women in Black,
with the support of art collectives Škart,
Dah Theater and civil society activists.