In Great Britain, the 29th anniversary of the commemoration of the bloodiest crime on European soil since World War II began with the Peace March in the city of Guildford, near London, the organizers announced.
A large number of members of the Bosnian diaspora responded to the invitation of Mujo Delic and his family and friends to honor all the victims of the Srebrenica genocide with a two-hour walk and a program.
During the walk, Delic presented to the participants what the breakthrough looked like in order to reach the free territory. He talked about his survival, the loss of his family as well as everyone he knew, how they survived the worst injuries and carrying the wounded in difficult conditions.
At the end of the several-hour march, a history lesson was held. The focus was on the youth.
Alen Suljić was nine years old during the genocide in Srebrenica. He described to those present how he survived Potočari with his mother and two brothers, where he saw with his own eyes what the Chetniks were doing to innocent people and how people hanged themselves out of desperation. They were running away from criminals in order to reach free territory. In that death march, Alen lost his father.
Zijad Fajković from Bosanska Gradiška was twelve years old when his father and cousin were taken away by Serb neighbors in 1992. Even after thirty-two years, they have not been found, so even now he does not know if they are alive. He told how he came to Great Britain with his mother and sister as a 12-year-old via Croatia and Slovenia.
Meho Jakupović told the horrors he survived in the Serbian camps in Bosnian Krajina, and Fahra Jamaković, a Sarajevan with a temporary address in London, read two poems about Srebrenica. Samir Mehmedović read a story about a son and a mother, under the emotional title “I didn’t kiss you, mother”.
