Harrow will be marking the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica, Bosnia genocide at the Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 on 28 January at the Harrow Arts Centre – attendance In-Person and Streamed Live.
The event is likely to be publicised by Cllr Paul Osborn, leader of the Harrow council, in his email shot MyHarrow@news.harrow.gov.uk.
In 2018, remembering the Bosnian genocide, the Harrow council (then Labour) organised a flag-raising ceremony outside the civic centre, which was attended by several councillors and the council’s interim chief executive.
“Following this summer’s far-right anti-Muslim & anti-immigrant riots and rise in Islamophobia, we welcomed the opportunity to discuss the importance of strengthening community ties to tackle hatred & the importance of learning lessons from the Bosnian genocide – the worst atrocity on European soil since the Second World War” said Dr Waqar Azmi OBE, the Chair Remembering Srebrenica, in his New Year’s message.
Harrow had its share of far-right targetting last year (they marked Harrow though didn’t come, but Harrow seems to have some far-right sympathisers).
More than 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) boys and men, were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, a town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in July 1995. In addition to the killings, more than 20,000 civilians were expelled from the area – a process known as ethnic cleansing.
Earlier in July 2024, Stephen Doughty MP, Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), on behalf of His Majesty’s Government hosted the UK National Srebrenica Memorial Day organised by Remembering Srebrenica.
Remembering Srebrenica is part-funded by the UK Government and is committed to using the lessons from Srebrenica to tackle hatred and intolerance to help to build a better, safer and more cohesive society for everyone.
Holocaust Memorial Day: For a Better Future | Harrow
The event is likely to be publicised by Cllr Paul Osborn, leader of the Harrow council, in his email shot MyHarrow@news.harrow.gov.uk.
In 2018, remembering the Bosnian genocide, the Harrow council (then Labour) organised a flag-raising ceremony outside the civic centre, which was attended by several councillors and the council’s interim chief executive.
“Following this summer’s far-right anti-Muslim & anti-immigrant riots and rise in Islamophobia, we welcomed the opportunity to discuss the importance of strengthening community ties to tackle hatred & the importance of learning lessons from the Bosnian genocide – the worst atrocity on European soil since the Second World War” said Dr Waqar Azmi OBE, the Chair Remembering Srebrenica, in his New Year’s message.
Harrow had its share of far-right targetting last year (they marked Harrow though didn’t come, but Harrow seems to have some far-right sympathisers).
More than 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) boys and men, were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, a town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in July 1995. In addition to the killings, more than 20,000 civilians were expelled from the area – a process known as ethnic cleansing.
Earlier in July 2024, Stephen Doughty MP, Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), on behalf of His Majesty’s Government hosted the UK National Srebrenica Memorial Day organised by Remembering Srebrenica.
Remembering Srebrenica is part-funded by the UK Government and is committed to using the lessons from Srebrenica to tackle hatred and intolerance to help to build a better, safer and more cohesive society for everyone.
Holocaust Memorial Day: For a Better Future | Harrow
Harrow Monitoring Group 
While it is worthy to remember the Srebrenica genocide, with 8000 people killed, surely what should also have featured is the horrific current genocide in Gaza, ongoing for nearly a year and half, with the daily slaughter of Palestinians, the total erasure of Gaza, including the deliberate destruction of all the hospitals, schools, universities and places of worship, and historic buildings going back centuries, the whole civilian infrastructure and the prevention of aid, fuel, food and medical supplies where children are dying of hypothermia, disease, starvation and shelter bing bombed using the fiercest weapons of mass destruction, including so-called ‘safe zones’.
This is an emergency that calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, which will allow the immediate allowance of aid and life saving ,measures, all waiting to enter but being blocked by the Israeli army, and to allow negotiations to free the 100 Israel hostages in exchange for the 12,000 Palestinian hostages being tortured in Israeli prisons. These include many doctors, nurses, medical staff and journalists, many of them dying in horrendous ways, and many raped, all with proper evidence in videos and even social media by Israeli soldiers boasting of their killings and destruction. Harrow must step up to calling for an end to this genocide and multiple war crimes by the Israeli state in accordance with rulings by the ICJ, which has asked for nations to help stop this unimaginable crime being perpetrated against the Palestinian people, as a climax to the decades long since 1948, persecution, imprisonment , occupation and siege in Gaza and the West Bank, all to perpetrate the theft of Palestinian land and homes, while destroying infrastructure, building illegal settlements, and erasing Palestinian history. This tragedy must be brought to an end by using a total arms embargo and sanctions to bring Israel to its senses. The collaboration Western governments, particularly the US, UK, Germany and France must end, and their governments also brought to account for aiding and abetting war crimes and genocide with their billions in arms and weapons being sent to Israel, and participating with surveillance, expertise and military threats. Speak up ,Harrow!
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