July 11, 1995

Today a tear is not a tear, today a tear is lead.

Today the sigh is not a sigh, today the sigh is a scream that calls out.

Today the silence is not silence, today the silence is a warning that 8372 were killed… storytellers whose story of the most horrible killing there is no one to tell.
Today freedom is not freedom, today freedom is the thought of it frozen in view of the murdered past, present and future.
Today justice is not justice, today justice is embarrassed by the betrayal of those who in the protected enclave of the UN allowed the criminals members of the so-called system.

Ilijaz Pilav during the first remembrance march of the survivors that he organised in 2005

The VRS, the RS police, the creators and followers of the evil ideology, committed GENOCIDE against Bosniaks.

Today’s shame is not shame, today’s shame is hatred, which is reflected in unrepentant criminals and their descendants who proudly celebrate the crime of GENOCIDE of their grandfathers and fathers.
Today Srebrenica is Srebrenica, a place where hope for life is drawn from death.

Today, every word must be as heavy as the truth and said for a man!
Today humanity must ask itself whether it is on the trail of civilizational value.
Today GENOCIDE is the only truth that must be ACCEPTED!

Dr. Ilijaz Pilav, Srebrenica survivor