More than 8.000 participants from our country and world started today a memorial march to Potocari from village Nezuk, in order to pay tribute to the victims of genocide in July 1995.
Participants of the march, known as the Peace March, are walking through paths over 100 kilometers long through which people from Podrinje were saving their lives in 1995, escaping from criminals from the Army of RS. It is about the 11th Peace March, which is a unique march in the world.
This year’s participant is Resid Dervisevic as well, for whom this path in July 1995 was a path of salvation. He survived that death march. But, many have not…
“I crossed to a free territory at the eight day, with 250 grams of sugar. It was my breakfast, lunch and dinner. Words cannot describe it. It was worse and harder than in the stories“, said Resid.
Today, twenty years later, he recalls the scenes of horror. He saw death and wounded people to whom he couldn’t help at every meter.
He lost his brother, two cousins, uncle, four nephews in the genocide…A total of 32 members of his immediate family. The anniversary of the genocide is very painful for him.
Citizens from all parts of B&H participate in the Peace March. Organized groups were arriving last day to Nezuk. Also participants from the abroad arrived. The most participants are from Turkey, and there are also participants from France, Switzerland, Great Britain, USA, Croatia etc.
It was said in the Organization committee that everything is ready for this year’s Peace March. They invited all participants to walk through the path to Potocari with dignity and to strictly obey the code of conduct.
As a reminder, participants are walking through the paths through which people from Podrinje tried to cross the free territory after the fall of Srebrenica. For thousands of people, who managed to arrive to Nezuk in 1995, this was a path of salvation, while thousands of them were killed in forests, or were captured and executed in Potocari.
Participants of the Peace March will walk for three days through settlements, forest, mountains and meadows of Podrinje, where the biggest crimes in Europe after the World War II were committed from 1992 to 1995.
They will pass next to the biggest tomb on Balkans, the one at the Crni Vrh between Osmak and Zvornik, but also through the settlement Kamenica near Zvornik, which is called the Valley of Tombs. The first day of the March, participants will spend the night in Liplje near Zvornik, the second day in Mravinjci near Konjevic Polje, and the third day in Potocari.
(Source: faktor.ba)
