In fact she tried to leave the production a number of times during filming but at least the $7 million pay cheque must have eased the pain. Whoopi Goldberg was famously forced to appear in the film after reneging on a verbal agreement, so we really can’t blame her for looking like she’d rather be anywhere else. Everything about this film is lazy, unimaginative and cliched while the writing is terrible, the direction inept and the performances atrocious. The sci-fi elements are simply ludicrous but that’s largely irrelevant since even for the mid-nineties the visual effects are utterly appalling. It isn’t remotely funny so you couldn’t call it a comedy and it isn’t exciting, so calling it a thriller is out. Photo by Brent Björkman, 2017.It’s difficult to really know where to begin when it comes to criticising this film because it fails on every possible level. The white petals represent women mourning, dressed in white, surrounding the green center.įormally known as the Srebrenica–Potočari Memorial and Cemetery for the Victims of the 1995 Genocide, this public site in Srebrenica was created to honor the 8,372 victims of the genocide. In Potočari, when the victims of the genocide are laid to rest, the casket is draped in green (the center of the flower). In addition, the colors and shape also represent the burials of the victims. The white petals represent innocence, while the green represents hope. The eleven petals on this flower represent the day the genocide began, July 11th.
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A symbol worn as a pin by many in Bowling Green, the crocheted flower was developed in Bosnia by a crocheting association, Gračaničko keranje (“Gračanica Crochet”), which exists to conserve Bosnia’s traditional crocheting techniques.
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This small crocheted flower is a sign of remembrance of the genocide that took place in Srebrenica, Bosnia, in July of 1995. It happened to thousands, thousands people in Bosnia.” – Izeta Dželil, 2016 Ĭlick here for the transcription of this audio clip. And I always said, “if I’m – only me I will say, ‘Okay, this happened to me.’” But it didn’t happen just to me. Some mothers lost their kids at that time. “I’m one of thousands mothers, living here in Bowling Green… so many single mothers, so many missing husbands. The Srebrenica Flower Photo by Nicole Musgrave, 2017 Many in our Bowling Green community lived in besieged Srebrenica and survived the events of the genocide many of their loved ones did not survive. As a result, it has been difficult to identify victims, and the process remains ongoing. In an effort to conceal the scale of the atrocity, Bosnian Serb forces moved many of the mass graves to secondary and sometimes tertiary sites to hide the evidence. While the women and young children were bused out, men and boys were taken to the surrounding countryside and executed.Īround 8,000 men and boys were murdered and buried in mass graves. Both men and women were told they would be bused to Bosniak-controlled territory but for the men, this was a lie. Once the peacekeepers allowed Bosnian Serb forces into Srebrenica, Mladić ordered the separation of the women and small children from the men and boys.
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Despite false promises to the UN peacekeepers assuring the safety of the inhabitants, over the course of just a few days, Mladić’s forces would torture, rape, and kill many of those who thought they were protected.
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Although it had been declared a “Safe Area” by the United Nations, on July 11th, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces led by Ratko Mladić entered Srebrenica with the intent to kill the concentrated Bosniak population taking refuge there. It is a strange feeling to describe, there are no words for it, but you knew that this day is like no other and you knew that this day will stand among the rest of your days.” – Mehmed Alić, as shared with Senida Husić, 2015īetween 19, the village of Srebrenica in Eastern Bosnia served as a Bosniak stronghold and refuge, besieged from the perimeter by Bosnian Serb forces. “When we saw that there was no hope for Srebrenica and its people - that the final moment had come, the terror could be felt in the air.