Lilium Mozaik

Remember History

Take action to ensure that history does not repeat itself and that it serves as a lesson for future generations

The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina was the biggest conflict in Europe since the end of the Second World War. More than 100,000 people died between 1992 and 1995, and thousands more lost their lives indirectly as a result of post-traumatic stress suicides. More than two million people were also displaced.

The Srebrenica massacre was one of the darkest chapters of the war.

In July 1995, the army of Bosnian Serbs, supported by Serbia and Montenegro, took control of Srebrenica – which had been declared a safe area under UN Security Council Resolution 819 – and brutally murdered thousands of men and children.

Women were raped and around 25,000 women, children and elderly people were forcefully removed from the enclave. This was the largest massacre in Europe since the Holocaust and was recognised by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as an act of genocide.

On 23 May 2024, the United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution A/RES/78/282 submitted by Germany and Rwanda, designated 11 July as the “International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the Genocide Committed in Srebrenica in 1995”.

This resolution unreservedly condemns any denial of the historicity of the genocide committed in Srebrenica and urges Member States, including Switzerland, to preserve the established facts, in particular through their education systems, by developing appropriate programmes in order to prevent denial and revisionism, as well as the occurrence of genocides in the future.

To ensure that these tragedies never happen again and that they serve as a lesson for future generations, Lilium Mozaik has set up a digital platform specifically dedicated to such events.

Lilium Mozaik also organises and supports an annual awareness-raising programme in collaboration with its partners and the public authorities, it organises and supports tributes to the victims and fights against all acts that glorify those responsible for the Srebrenica genocide and the Bosnia-Herzegovina War who have been condemned by the international courts.

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