On Sunday 11 July the exterior facade of the Library of Birmingham will be lit up green in honour of Srebenica Memorial Day.

Fifty years after the world said “Never Again” to the horrors of the Holocaust, genocide took place on European soil.

The name Srebrenica has become synonymous with those dark days in July 1995 when, in the first ever United Nations declared safe area, thousands of men and boys were systematically murdered and buried in mass graves. The victims, who were Muslim, were selected for death on the basis of their identity. This was the worst atrocity on European soil since the Second World War.

For more information please visit the Srebrenica website.

Article posted 9 July 2021.