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Understanding Srebrenica Genocide + Lunch with Local Family
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Overview
- Visit to Potočari Memorial Centre (Memorial Cemetery, Gallery, Dutch Base and Museum)
- Understand the true meaning of the word “genocide”
- Meet the local survivor at the Memorial Centre and hear their storey
- Have a lunch with a local family who survived the Genocide
- Learn the storey of rise and fall of Yugoslavia
Activity location
- Sarajevo
- Sarajevo, Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Sarajevo
- Sarajevo, Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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What's included, what's not
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Arrangements for the visit to Memorial Centre in Potočari
- Transfers
- Professional and fully experienced guide
- Local Potočari Memorial Centre guide (who himself/herself are Genocide survivors, and who will give us history class on Srebrenica Genocide and their own personal experiences)
- Lunch with a family of local survivors
- Service charge
What you can expect
Meet our team at the office or your preferred pickup location. Your guide will give you a personal, first-hand, experience of sorrowful past events and introduce your to the local people of Srebrenica to complete the whole picture. They will make sure no questions remain unanswered, even of personal nature, so don’t refrain from sharing your thoughts and opinions at any moment of time.
After the morning pickup around 8 am, you’ll spend two and a half hours on the road towards Srebrenica, where you’ll enjoy the beautiful scenery of Eastern Bosnian mountain regions, spiced up with detailed stories and important explanations behind the reasons of “Death of Yugoslavia”.
Understanding the role of Bosnia in the storm of 90’s is crucial for better understanding of Genocide in Srebrenica.
Genocide in Srebrenica is not an event which just took place in one narrow region or one town, in fact, it is an overall storey of aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina, meaning Genocide events took place in wider area of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and especially of the region of East Bosnia, famously called Podrinje.
During your ride you will pass through several small towns and village where similar events have occurred, so chronological introduction and context is very important to fully understand the storey that you’ll be exploring together that day.
As soon you arrive to Memorial Centre at Potočari, you will have a chance to participate at locally guided tour and history class at Memorial Centre with official guide. Local guide in charge is survivor of those events and person whose experiences and stories are extremely important part of the tour.
Other important elements of the visit will take place at former UN base, where you’ll get a chance to see amazing Museum of “Srebrenica Genocide – failure of international community”, understand importance of Memorial Room, see number of documentary films, study chronological photo exhibitions, get stunned by graffiti remains, learn personal stories and stories of in-base mass grave and other elements of importance related to overall storey of Srebrenica Genocide.
The highlight of the day is lunch with the local family in Srebrenica. As the unemployment rate, Genocide denial and severe discrimination of predominantly Bosniak people in Srebrenica is frequent, Funky Tours has dedicated its work to empower local communities to be active participant of sustainable tourism.
People of Srebrenica love to share their personal stories, those beautiful, equally as the terrible ones. Don’t be afraid to listen, understand and actively support the sustainability of life in Srebrenica today.
After we are done with lunch and Srebrenica town explorations, it is time to head back. Expect to be in Sarajevo around 6 or latest 7 pm.
Location
Activity location
- Sarajevo
- Sarajevo, Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Sarajevo
- Sarajevo, Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine, Bosnia and Herzegovina