AN ESSAY ABOUT SREBRENICA MEMORIAL

Abstract

The text consideres the possibilities of memorializing Srebrenica- the place where the latest genocide of the world took place. The author makes a comparative analysis ofAuschwitz and Srebrenica, pondering upon the idea, like Adorno some times earlier, whether it is possible to write poetry or even to think after Auschwitz or Srebrenica. She concludes that it is even more difficult in the case of Srebrenica, for the part of the population (women) returned to Srebrenica and are now trying to live and survive in incredibly inhumane conditions, and with tremendous pain- living right besides the graves where their dearest are berried. The author thus suggests three ways or three levels of memorializing Srebrenica: sacral, memorial and commercial. She insists upon most general cultural and religious suggestions that have been experienced after Jewish holocaust ( New York, Treblinka, Auschwitz… ) as well as upon the ideas that in religious sense express those spiritual ideas that from the Islamic perspective and from the perspective of general sanctity of life overcome the idea of genocide. In the end, the author invites for a public discussion wherein the maps, paths, denunciators, denouncers and witnesses of genocide are marked out within a triangle of sociological–lacanian discourse contained in the relation: denounced- denunciatorwitnesses; she further suggests that this is a way to overcome all the tensions and the tragedy of escaping and turning away from the reality of the genocide in Srebrenica committed over thousands of men, Bosniaks, Muslims, Bosnians no matter how we named that horrible event of the summer 1995.