In 2005, the advisor of President Aleksandar Vučić, Suzana Vasiljević, shot a shocking film about the crime in Srebrenica – “Srebrenica Memories” – for which she was awarded the “Golden Olive” for directing at the television festival in Bar.
The President of Serbia has been in New York since the beginning of the week, where he is lobbying against the resolution on the Day of Remembrance of the Srebrenica Genocide. From the East River, he says that the adoption of that resolution would lead to destabilization in the region, writes N1.
“Not only will this resolution not bring peace and heal the wounds of the past, it will deepen the gap between nations and lead to new tensions in the Western Balkans.” That is why we ask that this resolution be withdrawn, and if it is not, we call on the members to vote against it,” Vučić said at a reception organized by the Permanent Mission of Serbia to the United Nations for permanent representatives of UN member states.
Vučić pointed out that there was no discussion or agreement on the text of the resolution in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that this decision divided the people of that country, with the opposition of the legitimate representatives of the Serbs and ignoring the institutions, laws and Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
With Vučić in New York is his media advisor Suzana Vasiljević, who in 2005 shot a shocking documentary film about the crime of Srebrenica.
“I shot the film on the tenth anniversary of the massacre in Srebrenica and the interlocutors were women, mothers who lost family members in those terrible war days. Kada Hotić, Munira… Together we searched Bosnia for the graves of their loved ones. “Yes, the film was shown on B92 television in its entirety, and some parts were used in a documentary film shown by Radio Television of Serbia,” said Vasiljević in 2018, in an interview with the Croatian “Nacional”.
Her film “Srebrenica Memories” was shown in 2005 at the Zagreb Film Festival, when she spoke about it in more detail for “Feral Tribune” from Split.
“It was terribly difficult. The very fact that we, as a team from Belgrade, are going to shoot a film about Srebrenica was a problem for me. I should have, with my pure Belgrade accent, called the Women’s Association of Srebrenica and Žepa and asked them if they would talk to the Serbian media about how the Serbs killed all their lives. I thought we would hit a wall, but after the first conversation, which was the most painful part of the job for me, I realized that these women will meet us, because regardless of having survived that tragedy, they still don’t hate anyone.” , Vasiljević said then.
She assessed that it is “that simple Bosnian soul that can forgive everything, even the biggest crime.”
“One of them (mothers) also said in the film: In Belgrade, I called on the people to separate themselves from those who committed crimes and to start living together.” The most important thing is that my friends watched the film in Belgrade and everyone cried, which means that I was able to tell the story without a political background and make people simply sympathize with the pain,” said Vasiljević.
Then she also said that there are people in Serbia who didn’t know about the crime in Srebrenica, because they didn’t want to know, they refused to accept the facts, because when you don’t notice a problem, you have the impression that it doesn’t exist.
“The second group includes those who turn on the first program of RTS, sit and watch and RTS says that Naser Orić is killing people in Srebrenica and they believe it, because they have never heard anything else.” Television was the only medium, and of course it was in the hands of Slobodan Milosevic. When it is talked about today, those who refused to know seem to experience some kind of remorse for not knowing, while the others still refuse because it is difficult for them to say, after fifteen years of their lives that they invested in Milosevic, now, ‘so we we messed up,'” said Suzana Vasiljević.
In July 1995, the forces of the RS Army killed more than 8,000 men and boys from the enclave under the protection of the United Nations in Srebrenica.
The Hague Tribunal and the International Court of Justice characterized this crime as genocide. For these crimes, more than 50 people were sentenced to about 700 years in prison.
