The Srebrenica genocide Memorial Centre joined the initiative of virtual visits to museums, galleries, and memorial centres during the social distancing and self-isolation period over the coronavirus pandemic, the Centre said on Tuesday.

“In the time to come, we plan to increase the number of footage in our library, which will provide a better insight into all segments of the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial Centre and will be available online,” the Centre said.

The link with the first video tour of the entire centre is available HERE.

In April 1993, the UN had declared the besieged enclave of the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica a safe area under UN protection. However, in July 1995, the Dutch battalion failed to prevent the town’s capture by the Bosnian Serb forces and the massacre that followed, in which more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed. So far, the remains of more than 6,600 victims of the massacre have been found and buried.

The Centre noted that these were only their initial activities and that they wanted to serve as an example of how institutions of culture, museums, and galleries should respond to the challenges the world faces these days.