On 11th July 1995, 8372 Bosnian men were killed in Srebrenica by the Serbian forces in one of the world’s most darkest moments of Genocide.

Described by the United Nations as “The worst crime on European soil since the second world war” the killings have been classified as genocide by the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; yet denial remains prevalent.

The lessons learned from Srebrenica are that hatred and intolerance can flourish if left unchallenged even in an integrated society like Bosnia and Herzegovina where people of different faiths had lived peacefully together for hundreds of years.

Derby marks this Genocide each year at the Bosnian and Herzegovina Centre.

“There must be no empty pledges”