A dor interminável das mulheres de Srebrenica

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Foto de Michel Slomka:

I took this picture in Srebrenica. It was the 10th of July, the day before the ceremony for the 15th anniversary of the massacre of 1995. I was working on a story about the Srebrenica refugees and how they live now. Many of them did not know the whereabouts of their relatives, who were buried in a mass grave. They never found the bodies, so they cannot achieve closure. It’s a big problem in Bosnian society (…) An old woman in front of me found what she was looking for: her son’s coffin. I remember she stood there, crying. She had no news of her son for so long and now she found him again, in a wooden box. She probably never had the chance to say goodbye. She was stroking the coffin, whispering softly.

16 anos depois do Massacre de Srebrenica, foi finalmente capturado Ratko Mladic, também conhecido por “Carniceiro da Bósnia”, aquele que coordenou um dos genocídios da história da humanidade. Responsável por vários crimes de guerra, ele não hesitou em chacinar oito mil homens e rapazes muçulmanos em Srebrenica.

Ratko Mladic irá juntar-se na prisão a Radovan Karadzic, o líder político dos sérvios da Bósnia, detido em julho de 2008 em Belgrado. Ambos são acusados pelo Tribunal Penal Internacional de crimes de guerra, crimes contra a humanidade e genocídio. Uma sentença poderá aliviar um pouco a dor das mulheres de Srebrenica, mas nunca a fará desaparecer.