Thirty Years After Srebrenica, the Promise of “Never Again” Rings Hollow

Thirty years after Srebrenica, the promise of “never again” rings hollow

Dinushka Disanayake attends the anniversary commemorations of the the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia A week ago, I stood in silence by a graveside and watched as seven coffins were lowered into the soil. But this was no normal funeral. Those being laid to rest had been killed three decades earlier alongside more than 8,300 men and boys, over a period of several days in July 1995. This was Srebrenica and I was there with thousands of others, benea…

Srebrenica, Gaza — what happened to 'never again'?

As promises of “never again” fell from the mouths of state officials at the Srebrenica commemoration — whose governments persist in transferring arms to Israel, which has not relented in its genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip — I felt the hypocrisy hang heavy from the rafters, writes Amnesty International's deputy director for Europe.