Echoes of Sorrow: ‘Pain of Mothers of Srebrenica’ Exhibition by Ahmet Bajrić Unveils the Unspoken Truths of a Tragic Past
Pain of the Mothers of Srebrenica: A Photo Exhibition in Sarajevo
Today in Sarajevo, the photo exhibition “Pain of the Mothers of Srebrenica” by Ahmet Bajrić, organized jointly by the City of Sarajevo and the representative office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for Bosnia and Herzegovina, opened in Veliki Park.
The author of the exhibition, Ahmed Bajrić, said that the photos were taken since 1995, from the first search for the missing in Sapna, when the women of Srebrenica heard that their loved ones had been killed.
– I photographed all the mass graves in Podrinje. Photographs of commemorations, protests, grave digging, and funerals are on display. I took more than 100,000 photos, and for this exhibition I chose about 50. I called the exhibition ‘Pain of the mothers of Srebrenica’, wherever they went there was pain and sadness, and there was so much cheerfulness in them, without anything. hatred They never accused the Serbian people of genocide. There are dozens of women who lost five, six or more of their closest family members in the genocide. More than 8,000 people were killed in the breakthrough, and as many were killed in Zvornik, Prijedor, Bijeljina and other cities – said Bajrić.
The opening of the exhibition was attended by the deputy mayor of the City of Sarajevo, Samir Avdić, the director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Sarajevo, Stephan Raabe, Ramiza Gurdić, a member of the Association “Movement of Mothers of the Srebrenica and Žepa Enclaves”, who lost her two sons and a man in the genocide in Srebrenica, and students of the first secondary schools and citizens.