‘An obligation to tell our story’: St. Louis’ Bosnian population remembers genocide on 30th anniversary

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – Almost everyone in the crowd wore a shirt reading “8,372″— the estimated number of dead and missing Bosniak Muslims in the Srebrenica massacre.

On the 30th anniversary of the only recognized European genocide since the Second World War, the large Bosnian population of St. Louis gathered outside Soldiers’ Memorial to honor their families.

“It means a lot, especially as a survivor to share my story,” Elvir Ahmetovic told First Alert 4. “To tell the world what happened. People were starving, killed on a daily basis. My family members were killed. My sister, my uncle, my grandfather.”…

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