The tensions of the punishment in the srebrenica still felt 30 years old

Silence is destroyed by a laryngeal cry. A group of people scrolls on the ground, sifting the soil. One of them holds the hours they revealed; Another, Sand.

A scene on the stage at the Sarajevo military theater is uncomfortable for viewers at the world premiere of silver flowers. The performance reflects the gloomy reality of events not only since July 1995, but also the next decades of unresolved grief and divisions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Cada Srebrenica remains the most famous war crime committed in Europe after World War II. The Bosnian Serb forces overcame the Srebrennik in the east of Bosnia, where thousands of a bullshit, which are mostly Muslims, found refuge, believing that they are safely protected by the United Nations.

Instead, the Dutch soldiers stood aloof when Bosnian-Serb Ratka Mladic sent his troops to deploy women and the youngest children on buses for transportation to Bosniak districts. Then, in the next days, he oversee the systematic murder of about 8,000 people – most, but not all of them, men and boys.

Mladic troops dumped bodies into mass graves. But later, in order to cover their crimes, they exhumed, and then restarted the remains in several areas.

As a result, the part of the body was distributed on several graves, which caused an infinite longing for the families of the victims. Many of them are still looking for their relatives who have remained decades later, although DNA testing helped thousands of families to bury their family members in the cemetery, adjacent to the former UN base.

Others were able to identify body parts through clothing or personal belongings – as shown in the Srebrenica flowers.

The performance also reflects, apparently in -depth divisions in modern Bosnia and Herzegovina. While the audience in Sarajevo is provided with a standing ovation for acting and crew, most Serb-Serbian SPSS, political leaders have repeatedly denied that genocide took place in silver, despite condemnation of Mladic for offenses in the international tribunal Karadan.

“I thought that when 30 years had passed, we came to feelings,” says Selm Elispakhich, the leading actress of the Sarajevo War Theater – the former refugee from Bosnia’s conflict.

“People get tired of prove the truth that has been proven so many times, even in international courts. The story of hatred and the rotation of the facts only serve the criminals who have made a profit from the war and who want to maintain their happiness today.”

Genocide refusal is not the only symptom of the country’s divisions. Daitan’s peace agreement ended the war, just four months after the massacre. But it also divided Bosnia and Duke into two “essence” into ethnic grounds. Most of Bosniki and steeply live in the federation, while most Serbs are in the Republic of SPSS.

There is also a government government, with members of the presidency for each of the three major ethnic groups. But most power lies at the level of essence.

In recent months, the President of the Republic of SPSS exploits this to make a mischief. Milorad Dodik pushes the legislation to abandon many national institutions, including the judiciary. This led him to the conflict with the final force of Bosnia, an international high representative.

The current owner of this post, Christian Schmidt, abolished the interested laws. But Dodik refused to recognize these decisions.

Earlier this year, the court sentenced him to a year in prison and a six -year ban from the state position for ignoring the high representative decisions. The verdict is currently in the appeal.

Additional Shangans have come – including the law on the creation of “reserve police forces”. The same terminology was used for the murderous Serbian police during the Bosnia conflict.

“It is dangerous, playing with the memory of those who survived the 1990s,” says Mr. Schmidt.

“I see an irresponsible part of the political class that plays with this. We need a clear presence of the international community at the military level – so Eufor (EU peacekeeping) gets greater responsibility in great presence, promising people that they will support calmly.”

In the center of Sarajevo, a reminder of the anniversary of the massacre in Srebrenica is difficult to miss. Hundreds of people squeezed under umbrellas in the rain to give their respect to the convoy, which transported the remains of seven recently identified victims to be buried in the cemetery during memory. Outside the city shopping centers, video screens call for passers -by “Remember Srebrenica”.

But just 15 minutes before the road, in Eastern Sarajevo, there is no public links to the massacre. Cyril script and Jelen beer umbrellas show that this is the Republic of SPSS. And there is little enthusiasm to honor the government in the building of the government.

Indeed, foreign trade minister Sasha Kosharak-leading SNSD Dodik-party member states that Srebrenga is used to deepen divisions and prevent reconciliation.

“Bosnia, Hrubs and Serbs were killed in this country – and crimes were committed on all three sides. It is important, thinking about the future that all guilty, on all sides, should be held accountable,” he says.

“Bosnax insists only to talk about Bosnak’s victims. Srebrenica committed a crime – no Serbs denies, but we have the right to note the crimes against the Serbs in and around him.”

But thousands of other people focus on solidarity with Srebrenga. On the eve of honoring, the memorial center and cemetery were already occupied by people who paid their respect. And they cheer up the arrival of cyclists, runners and motorcyclists from all over the country.

Mirela Osmanovich says that this support is crucial for Bosniki who returned to live in the area where their family members were killed. She was born two years after her two brothers were killed in Srebrenica and now works at the memorial center. But the recent tension left her rattling.

“The intensive atmosphere made by the leaders of the Republic of SPSS really breaks us, forcing us to feel no longer protected – and we really worry for our future.”

“My parents say it looks the way it looked like in 1992.”

For Dodik’s Milorado, a tension cycle manipulation is only part of his strategy to remain in power. But for people in Srebrenica, current ethno -political games only make healing more difficult.