“In a world plagued by division, mistrust and violence, the dark spectre of genocide is still with us,” stated United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration for Victims of Genocide and the Prevention of this Crime, coinciding with the 76th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
That is how on one March morning in 1993, fates intertwined to fuse the threads of a friendship that would defy all differences and borders. It was on that morning that I met a man who became my inspiration and my role model in life.
“I could never foresee something this horrible happening in Srebrenica. I was living peacefully alongside my neighbors until someone was granted the right to take everything from me.” - Zumra Sehomerović, Mothers of Srebrenica – By Chloé Gaillard and Marion Pineau.