![]() The list of atrocities is endless, but Srebrenica became the darkest page of the war. People were detained and put in concentration camps, and thousands of Bosnian women were systematically raped. # **Darkest page of war** The war that followed the breakup of the former Yugoslavia claimed more than 100,000 lives in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 19, mostly of Bosnian Muslims, and displaced more than two million others. !( News-holocaust-exhibit-02.jpg/image1440x560cropped.jpg) UN News/Hisae Kawamori A display at the Stories of Survival and Remembrance exhibit at UN Headquarters depicting pointe shoes that belonged to Mela, who lived through the Bosnian War. "I represent all the mothers who lost their children in the genocide, all those whose dreams were shattered by this tragedy," she told _UN News_ ahead of Srebrenica Memorial Day, commemorated on 11 July. Munira Subašić doesn't need photographs to remember the tragedy that claimed her husband, son, and 20 other close relatives. Among the exhibit's visitors were members of the Mothers of Srebrenica, an association that united thousands of people – mothers, sisters, and wives – who have lost loved ones in the massacre in their city. They belonged to a young ballet dancer from Bosnia and Herzegovina whose life was forever changed by the brutal conflict that broke out in the heart of Europe at the end of the twentieth century and were on display at the UN Headquarters in New York to educate visitors about the horrors of war and genocide. The pointe shoes were a testament to unfulfilled hopes.
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