It is July 11, 1995. The war in Bosnia has been going on for more than three years. The enclave of Srebrenica has been besieged by the Bosnian Serbs since the beginning of the war, but now in July they decide to take the city.

Protected by the UN

Srebrenica is under UN protection and many of the Muslim Bosnians therefore apply to the Dutch UN Battalion in Potocari, but there they receive no help and the Bosnian Serbs divide them. They put women, children and the elderly on buses north, while the men are interned and then executed and placed in mass graves. Most men try to flee over the mountains, but most are caught and executed as well. Even today mass graves are found and the death toll is up to over 8,000.

25th anniversary

July 11 draws attention to many places in the world. Among other things in Norrköping.

"It was a big miss when my dad disappeared and my big brother disappeared," says Aisa Jahic, who in addition to her father and brother lost several male relatives in the genocide.

Flowers in Motala Stream

In Norrköping, many gathered at the Bosnian Association's premises to remember. But in these coronation times, they had to make the best of the situation and not be more than 50 people and keep a distance from each other, although it was not easy at a time of memory and sorrow.

"The manifestation is the least we can do for those we couldn't help in Srebrenica 1995. The story must not be repeated, we must never forget," says Mensur Halimanovic, president of the Bosnian Association in Norrköping.

In 2004, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia unanimously ruled that the Srebrenica massacre should be considered a genocide.

Watch and hear about the genocide in the video above.