Letter from the bishop Mihailo, Metropolitan of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church, was read at the beginning of the commemoration in Srebrenica.
“Thousands of tombstones testify to the weight of the crime committed against the innocent residents of Srebrenica, just because they were born under the crescent sign.
All of us in this region who feel like humans carry that load on our shoulders, and we pray to the Almighty that such genocide, the kind of genocide that the modern world has not seen since the Second World War, happens never again. We must make public all the evidence and traces of that terror, unworthy of any being that considers himself human, for the entire world to see.
To all those who deny the genocide, we must say that every stone and every inch of land in Srebrenica is a witness of the evil that took place here 21 years ago.
That was a criminal onslaught on Bosnia as we know it, on Bosnia where good people live, regardless of their religion and nation. That is why today you are paying tribute to the innocent victims who got killed so that Bosnia could be divided.
Potočari symbolize the relation of the world civilization towards the crime, the civilization that will not let one such terror happen again and that will not allow a division of Bosnia as it fits the criminals, who designed and executed the terror. On my personal behalf and on behalf of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church on whose head I stand, I tell you to be dignified in your pain and grieving for your loved ones, and the Lord will reward the evildoers as they deserved. It is your duty to forgive, in the name of humanity, peace and love, but never forget,” bishop Mihailo wrote.
(Source: nap.ba/photo: crnogorskipokret.org)
