Srebrenica Memorial Center

Sometimes it's hard for your brain to get your head around numbers so while 8000 people can seem a lot when you see 8000+ headstones for as far as the eye can see it really hits home to how many people it is.
Across the road from the memorial is the main museum. Hasan who oversees it all gave an in-depth talk about what happened and what he did to survive. The museum is new and very extensive and really helps you understand what happened. It must be very difficult to have to talk about it all the time but he really brought to life how it felt to live through this.

If you want to do solo this is how I did it. There is 1 bus a day that goes and returns from Sarajevo. The bus leaves Sarajevo at 7:10am from platform 11 of main bus station next to the railway station. It is 39.90 marka return, about 25 one way. The bus took around 3 and 1/2 hours to arrive. The driver was friendly and dropped me right outside the memorial in Potacari. The return bus leaves Srebrenica at 4:30pm and Bratunac at 4:40pm. Bratunac bus station is actually closer to the memorial than Srebrenica so ironically there is no actual need to visit the town of Srebrenica. You will get into Sarajevo around 8pm.

I really recommend visiting here if you get a chance and learning about 1 of the worst events in post war Europe.

A really sad place. You experience a few minutes of what Bosnians experience in three years of war. 1992-1995 genocide of 8000 muslims in Srebrenica and about 130000 muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Getting here is a little difficult but it's a must visit if you're in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The memorial for those who were massacred by the serbian forces in July 1995.

If you are coming from Sarajevo you had several options :

1)Take the bus from Sarajevo to Srebenica and ask the driver to drop you off at the memorial (you will pass it on your way to Srebenica. The memorial is about 5km from the town). There's one bus daily from Sarajevo which leaves at 0710 with the return at 1630 but it takes 4-5 hours.
2) go with private shuttle tours, which will cost around €60 per person and there's a minimum amount of passengers required.
3) drive. I did this option and I recommend the route through sokolac. Easy route to drive, but you will need to navigate through two mountains with sharp turns. Drive defensively and you will be fine. Also its a long drive through srpska territory so all the signs are in Cyrillic.

Impressive sad graveyard, and it’s important to also visit the camp, at the opposite side of the road. At the end UN did not keep their promise to keep this a ‘safety zone’. It resulted in the murder of thousands and thousands of Muslim civilians: boys and men, who were completely chance less. Not only a war crime, but Genocide, committed by de Serbian Bosnian army. The worst example of genocide in Europe since WW ll. As soon as people and politicians in Serbia and the Serbian people in Bosnia admit this all, there will be much more attention for their own war wounds, all the crimes that have been committed against them, also by Bosniak people. Srebrenica is a beautiful city, still, it should have a prosperous, and of course multiethnic future.

“The news and pictures from Bosnia…. testify to how Europe and humanity are still collapsing into the abyss of degradation… No cause, no goal can justify such barbaric actions and methods. They are crimes against humanity…a defeat for civilization.” Pope John Paul II

A barbaric incident that should never happen again to any nation.

I am speechless............ and there is no STAR that I can rate this complex. I wish there were not GENOCIDE, but it did happen. Who EVER say that it didn't happen, please go to Srebrenica and feel the pain of thousands of white tomb stones standing proudly on their motherland.

I'm absolutely speechless after seeing this place.
The emotions were and are strong even if I just think about what happened here.
Everyone should visit this place to understand what hate can cause, how many lives it can take.

I found it's hard to hold the tears when visied the cemetery. There's also a museum across the cemetery. We did not know about it first. When we came to the building (it's an ex factory building), it's locked, although they're dispalying the opening hours. We walked to the security office and have them opened the museum. Some photos hang on the wall. About the Srebrenice tragedy. :(

Srebrenica can be reach by bus from Sarajevo. There's a bus in the morning. But to come to Potocari memorial site you must a taxi.

Its a wery educational experience. As i Love lerning abot history it was very interasting. There is a short movie (about 30 min long) that they show whith reall recordings from the war, including the murder of few people.

Very sad place everyone one should visit.

Memorial centre and cemetery for Bosniaks, victims of the Genocide in UN safe zone Srebrenica committed by Army and Police forces of Republica Srpska
One of the"must see - must feel" places in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Definitely saddest place in Europe

Never again.
The Serbs may attack Murica for '99, yet they ethnically cleansed the Bosniaks, Albanians and Croats (yes, I know about what the Croats did in WW2). They cry that Kosovo is Albanian, but they place their people across these nations. Hypocrites.
But then again, we don't need Greater Serbia or Albania etc. All sides did war crimes, but the Serbs did the most shocking and they did lots. All countries need to get along as it's not 1995. We need to move on, but never forget.

Despite being hidden and hardly reachable by private transportation, the experience justifies the trip...museum should be opened daily and with longer times, i was there on Sunday and it was really pity to not visit it.

God blessed all of them.

a place that shows how cruel the war

This is a tragic 26 years ago people have been killed so many moms tried to save their children from Serbia I’ve been their I saw a picture of some ones eyeball so much tragic all children who disrespect their parents watch this film called : Qua Vadis Aida its a film of what happened then you would wish you never saw that film

Everyone should visit this place and remember what happened. You can feel many emotions here. But don't forget.

If you visit this place, you will feel much different than watching it on pictures.

So sad to see all those graves. A result of madness. More than 8000 deaths, for nothing. Unvelievable.

peaceful and respectful. a worthy memorial for a terrible event.