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for Balkan Development | E-mail Notice June 28, 2000 NEW YORK MEMORIAL FOR SREBRENICA, JULY 11 Tuesday, July 11th marks the fifth anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica. Nearly 8,000 men and boys were massacred by Serb troops as Dutch soldiers stood by. The UN has issued a remorseful report on its role during the greatest massacre in Europe since World War II. But, as yet, only 2% of the disappeared have been exhumed, 1% identified and only one perpetrator has been convicted and one other arrested for trial at the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at the Hague. Around the world--in Sarajevo, Paris, London, and New York--memorial services will be held both to remember those who were murdered and to demand that those responsible be prosecuted for their crimes against humanity. Be a part of the New York memorial: 5:30 - 6:30 pm a demonstration will be held in front of the New York Public Library (at 5th Ave and 42nd St.). 6:30 - 7:30 a memorial, with speakers, will be held in Bryant Park (behind the library). SPEAKERS -Bianca Jagger, human rights activist -David Rohde, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica -Scott Johnson, former aide to the Tribunal -Aisha Al-Adawiyyah, from Women in Islam -Sharon Silber, international guest at the 1997 Srebrenica Women's March in Bosnia. -Sheri Fink, former researcher in Kosovo and Bosnia for Physicians for Human Rights SIGN ON-LINE PETITION www.cij.org An online petition is available for signing at the Coalition for International Justice's Web site (www.cij.org) demanding: (1) that those responsible for the deaths be arrested and tried in the Hague; (2) the whole truth be uncovered about the perpetrators and the victims; (3) Surviving victims be safely returned home. TAKE ACTION! JOIN THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT GENOCIDE IS NOT A PARDONABLE CRIME! Sponsored by the Balkans Coordination Group of Amnesty International USA, Coalition for Intervention Against Genocide, Jews Against Genocide, Bosnia Bridge Group and other organizations to be announced. For further information and updated details on the event, please call (718) 789-5101 |