SREBRENICA

Memory Politics and the Strategic Rewriting of History

“The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations.” Kofi Annan

Yet it is the misuse of memory that threatens to haunt the future.

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IS IT PROPAGANDA?®

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Thirty years ago today, Srebrenica became the site of Europe’s worst atrocity since the Second World War. As the world pauses to remember the victims, this article reflects on how the memory of that genocide is now being reshaped, through silence, symbolism, and strategic denial.

What should have been a solemn moment of shared mourning has instead become another front in the West’s narrative war. Rather than honor the complexity of the Yugoslav conflict and the pain endured by all sides, Western powers have chosen to weaponize remembrance, elevating select victims, silencing others, and using the charge of genocide as a geopolitical tool.