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Potočari Memorial Center: Authorities need to investigate the 'convoys of hate'

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, January 7 (FENA) - The Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Center that commemorates the 1995 genocide victims, reacting to yesterday's incident involving the passing of a convoy of vehicles with nationalistic iconography, has called on the mayor of Srebrenica and the entire local community to finally have strength and change their attitude and to finally condemn hate speech and ask the local police to take the necessary measures to apprehend and punish those responsible.

“Last but not the least, we will ask the BiH Prosecutor's Office to react and investigate the direct and indirect links between decision-makers in institutions and the financing of the activities of associations and informal groups that organize these ‘convoys of hate’ in Srebrenica,” stated the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Center.

In connection to yesterday's incident in Potočari, when, in the late afternoon, a local convoy of vehicles, accompanied by loud music and nationalistic iconography, drove on a local road that runs between the sacral and memorial parts of the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Center, this institution stresses that the area must be protected and that the local community must take some responsibility for perpetuating celebration and glorification of the crime of genocide.

“The Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Center warns that the local community has once again failed to condemn hate speech and the spread of nationalist hysteria. For many years, Orthodox religious holidays have been used as an opportunity to publicly celebrate the crime of genocide and its perpetrators, thus jeopardizing any chance of confronting the past and having an inter-religious dialogue in Srebrenica,” stated the Potočari Memorial Center.

(FENA) S. R.

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