From next week, the Post Conflict Research Center from Sarajevo will be starting up a project for the realization of the permanent exhibition of installation of 100,000 bones in the former Battery Factory in Potočari, which will serve as a constant witness of the Srebrenica genocide in July of 1995.
With the support of the Memorial Center “Potočari”, the organization “Art of Revolution”, Srebrenica Municipality and the Organizing Committee for marking the 11th of July, this way they want to show the extent of the biggest crime committed in Europe since the World War II to the next generations, according to Velma Šarić, the Founder and Executive Director of the Post-Conflict Research Centre (PCRC).
“At the beginning of the week, we will be bringing together architects, artists and everyone else who can help us to come up with the design of how this installation should look. We’ve been setting it up on the lawn in Potočari as the beginning of the memorial project, and it was put in place by volunteers from 20 countries who were attending the commemoration on the 11th of July, “said Šarić.
Ceramic bones with the engraved messages about the genocide will serve as a reminder for the coming generations, and the Mothers of Srebrenica specially supported the project, saying that one day when they will no longer be here someone else will have to talk about what happened in Srebrenica.
As Šarić explained, similar installations exist in museums all around the globe, but this in Srebrenica will be set up in order to help to educate the coming generations. This setting was exhibited in the United States as well.
(Source: novovrijeme.ba)
