Bosniak representatives in Srebrenica have on Friday announced they will run a joint campaign under the name ‘My Address: Srebrenica’ aimed at increasing Bosniak voter turnout in the 2020 local election and that they will stand united and have a joint candidate for mayor.
“Today we have shown maturity, we set our personal differences aside. We gathered the leaders of the Bosniaks returnee community and pointed out the importance of having a single candidate for the Srebrenica mayor position and for securing a good turnout of Bosniak returnees, those internally displaced in FBiH and our people in the diaspora,” Tabakovic said.
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Bosniaks will be united this time and will not make the same mistake as in 2016, he said, referring to the election of Bosnian Serb, Mladen Grujicic, for Srebrenica Mayor that year.
“We have an obligation to do so, for our children and the future of our homeland,” he added.
Sadik Ahmetovic, who was supposed to run for the mayor post but dropped out for the sake of reaching a consensus on a joint candidate, said that the most important thing is for people to realise that Bosniak representatives are prepared to set aside differences.
“Only in this way will we mobilise the public and show that we are prepared to sacrifice our personal interests for victory in Srebrenica in October.”
“We have lost Srebrenica twice in our lives, in 1995 and in 2016, and we must not allow this generation to experience another defeat. We owe that much to those who are now long gone, but also to the coming generations,” Ahmetovic said.
According to the President of the Sub-committee of the Nezuk – Potocari Peace March, people from Srebrenica living all over the world are only waiting for Bosniak representatives to send a signal.
“When we all gather under one flag and send such a message from here, we will easily defeat all those who are leading a policy of genocide denial in Srebrenica, fighting against returnees, attacking our children in schools and working to deny us a future here,” he said.
