Petkovci Dam, 2018, from Makeshift series. I’d just updated the project on my website, and consider all the fieldwork for this series finished. You might see it here.
On this day 23 years ago, Srebrenica enclave felt under Serb army control without an intervention of UNPROFOR Dutchbat Battalion. In the following days more than 8,300 men – mostly civilians – were detained, and later killed in systematic manner. At this location, a dam at aluminium waste pond in Petkovci an approximate number of between 1500 and 2000 men were executed during the Srebrenica Genocide. Some of them were later buried in a mass grave there, and some of them had been reburied in secondary locations. Some of them are still missing, and on this Monday a truck with remains of 35 newly identified men travelled from Srebrenica to Potočari memorial, to prepare them for burial today. All this happened 50 years after words “Never again!” were spoken. But it happened, and it certainly will happen again, as the reasoning behind the Srebrenica Genocide isn’t as unique as it might appear to be.