News in English     | 10.07.2021. 10:25 |

Amelia Yani: Before leaving BiH, I had chance to see special image in Potočari

FENA Bisera Džidić

SARAJEVO / JAKARTA, July 10 (FENA) - Srebrenica is a quiet place today, but it always reminds me of a dark period during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina when 8,372 innocent people were brutally killed in a period of one week from July 11, 1995, former Indonesian ambassador to BiH Amelia Achmad Yani said for FENA.

She said that she visited the Potočari Memorial Center 19 times during her diplomatic engagement in BiH.

From February 2016 until the end of her term in July last year as Indonesia's ambassador to BiH, Amelia Achmad Yani visited Srebrenica with every delegation and officials who came from Indonesia on an official visit to BiH and the trip to Srebrenica was part of their stay in BiH.

“I became very attached both to Srebrenica and to those who survived the genocide and now live there. Hasan Hasanović, Amra Begić and Azir Osmanović are just some of them with whom I have talked many times and whom I know very well,” says Yani.

She describes her emotion and empathetic attitude towards Srebrenica with a special image that she had a chance to see at the Memorial Center in Potočari before leaving BiH.

“When I came to Srebrenica and at the Memorial Center in Potočari in June last year, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the cemetery was surrounded by red roses that made the scene look unforgettable to me. I said Al-Fatiha prayer at the cemetery that day. I saw that arrival and those roses as a message that my departure from BiH was blessed by them all,” Yani recalls.

She notes that in her book "I am Amelia", which was recently published in Indonesia and in which she writes about her engagement in BiH, she also wrote about Srebrenica.

At the end of the conversation, remembering the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, she says that every July 11, during her ambassador's term, she attended a commemoration and paid tribute to the victims of genocide in Srebrenica.

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