Remembering Srebrenica's North West Board received the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service for their work in tackling hatred and intolerance, the charity organisation tweeted on Sunday,
“Very proud that our dedicated North West Board have received a Queen's Award for Voluntary Service for their work in tackling hatred and intolerance using the lessons of the Srebrenica genocide. Congratulations!’,” they tweeted.
Very proud that our dedicated North West Board have received a Queen's Award for Voluntary Service for their work in tackling hatred and intolerance using the lessons of the Srebrenica genocide. Congratulations! https://t.co/F2OgTYUJ04
— Remembering Srebrenica (@SrebrenicaUK) June 2, 2019
“Congratulations Elinor MChohan and all the Board Members of Remembering Srebrenica North West Board. Thank you for all your hard work in helping to tackle hatred & build stronger and more cohesive communities. Well deserved,” Waqar Azmi OBE, the charity's Chair tweeted.
Congratulations @ElinorMChohan and all the Board Members of @SrebrenicaUK North West Board. Thank you for all your hard work in helping to tackle hatred & build stronger and more cohesive communities. Well deserved. https://t.co/4SjCLpFlQU
— Dr Waqar Azmi OBE (@_waqarazmi) June 2, 2019
Remembering Srebrenica is a British charitable initiative fighting discrimination, promotion of hatred, extremism, and exclusion.
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They are actively working on preserving the memory of victims of the Srebrenica genocide through projects, workshops and lectures.
UN estimates that during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia some 200,000 people lost their lives and over half a million were displaced.
In April 1993 the UN had declared the besieged enclave of the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica a safe zone under the UN protection. However, in July 1995 the Dutch battalion failed to prevent the town's capture by Bosnian Serb forces and the massacre that followed.
More than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed in the genocide that followed in the days after July 11, 1995, and so far the remains of more than 6,600 have been found and buried.
