Bosniaks walk in memory of Bosniaks killed in genocide

BOWLING GREEN, KY. – Many Bosnians who immigrated to Bowling Green after the war in the Balkan region forced them to seek asylum, walked Saturday in remembrance of the Bosnian genocide in 1995.

The annual Never Forget Srebrenica Walk was held at Circus Square Park. The group in front carried a banner that read “Never Forget Srebrenica Genocide 07.11.95.”

The banner was making reference to the Muslim Bosnians who lost their lives in July 1995.

During the civil war that broke out in the Balkan region of eastern Europe after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1992, Bosnian Serbs wanted to create a separate state for themselves and in doing so became deadly against Croats and Muslim Bosnians, referred to as Bosniaks.

In July 1995, some 8,000 male Bosniaks were killed and the United Nations declared those deaths as a genocide. Now every year, Bosniaks in Bowling Green march to remember those lost in the genocide of 1995.