Representatives of the Association of Mothers of Srebrenica, who arrived in Sarajevo from New York, where they participated in the panel discussion “Commemoration of Genocide: Justice, Truth, Healing” in the General Assembly of the United Nations, once again emphasized how important it is that the resolution on Srebrenica be adopted.
The president of the “Movement of the Mother Enclaves of Srebrenica and Žepa” Association, Munira Subašić, who spoke at a panel discussion in New York yesterday, said that they did the right thing and that she was sorry that everything got complicated. She says she expected Serbia to sponsor the resolution on Srebrenica.
“As important as it is for the mothers of Srebrenica, it is more important for them. It is important for us to commemorate the day of remembrance of the victims of genocide. If the Jews have the right, if those who survived the genocide in Africa have the right to commemorate January 27 and April 7, we mothers and our children also have the right to commemorate July 11, 1995. Serbia and the Serbian people need it because the common people and their children live in lies, they do not know the real truth. Through this resolution, they will find out the real truth,” said Subašić at the Airport in Sarajevo.
For us, she added, it is important “to build a better tomorrow, that our children do not experience what we experienced, that they look for their children in mass graves, that they go to testify, rather than live in peace and comfort”.
“Our children are the future and we must do everything so that children learn the real truth, so that they don’t live in lies,” said Subašić.
She pointed out that as long as a mother is alive, and she will leave it to her generations, her grandchildren, to fight for the truth and seek justice.
“We mothers successfully educated and brought up our children, without hatred and without revenge. Our children are doctors, engineers, professors, they speak several foreign languages,” said Subašić.
She added that she met several children from Srebrenica in New York, and that she was proud of them.
A member of the Association Movement “Mothers of the Srebrenica and Žepa Enclaves”, Kada Hotić said that they were waiting for that day, “to bring a piece of justice, as some kind of satisfaction to the victims”.
“For years we have been telling the truth, presenting the truth. The world needs to accept the truth. This resolution can only be a stamp on that truth, to be known, to be remembered, to be a warning and a lesson so that it never happens anywhere again. And those who deny, who are hurt by the truth, let them understand, let them accept the truth, let them condemn the criminals who did it in their name,” said Hotić.
She added that, together with other mothers from Srebrenica, she has been searching for the truth for years. She pointed out that I live alone, without my own – no son, no husband, no brothers, no aunt and uncle and no 56 family members. According to her, it cannot be an ordinary crime, it was done in a planned, systematic manner.
“Let Dodik and Vučić and those who support them know that this is only a cure for this insanity that they carry and do, and that for once we will be acknowledged that we were right. It is only a fraction of the truth for all our struggle. Thank you to those who support us, who understand us,” said Hotić.
One of the mothers from Srebrenica, Ramiza Gurdić, said that the mothers managed to achieve what they were waiting for.
“There is no scale to weigh our weight and our pain and our sadness. We mothers feed our grandchildren and our children. I would be the first to advise my daughter to stay on my path, and so would my grandchildren. I am fighting for my daughter and grandchildren, and I lost my sons and husband and 32 family members,” said Gurdić.
According to her, the mothers of Srebrenica, who suffered so much pain and sorrow, are now being humiliated by those who say that there was no genocide in Srebrenica, that so many people were not killed.
“We know what they did and what harm they did to us,” said Gurdić, Fena news agency writes.
