Tehran photo exhibit explores Bosnian people’s grief over Srebrenica Genocide

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from a collection by Iranian photographer Mehdi Salehi who amassed the series during his visits to Bosnia and Herzegovina.Part of the
collection also consists of photos of people attending the Annual Peace March or Mars Mira in Bosnia and Herzegovina organized in memory of
the victims of the 1995 genocide by Bosnian Serb forces.The three-day walk running from July 8 to 10 starts from a village called Nezuk
(Sapna Municipality) and over a three-day period covering a distance of some 90 kilometers, reaches Potocari, the final resting place for
many of those massacred.The ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Samir Veladzic, was among the guests present during the opening ceremony
people express their sympathy for Bosnian people on the anniversary of this tragic event every year, and we remember the Iranian soldiers
victims to heal the wounds of the war in Bosnia and to recall a vicious crime, which was ignored by the West and all international human
burning Bosnian homes along the way
Amid chaos and terror, thousands of civilians fled Srebrenica for the nearby village of Potocari, where a contingent of about 200 Dutch
On July 11, Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic strolled through Srebrenica and, in a statement recorded on film by a Serb journalist,
Monday apologized to the relatives of the victims for the role played by Dutch peacekeepers in the Srebrenica Genocide.Photo: Bosnian
Center on July 11, 2022
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