{"id":258284,"date":"2025-07-12T06:57:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258284\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T06:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:57:25","slug":"sophie-duchess-of-edinburgh-delivers-message-of-hope-to-mothers-of-srebrenica-30-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258284\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, delivers message of hope to Mothers of Srebrenica, 30 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Duchess of Edinburgh<\/a> has arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina to deliver an important speech on behalf of the The King, marking the 30th Anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide. The message addressed \u2018the Mothers of Srebrenica\u2019 and expressed King Charles\u2019 hope \u2018that we may all take inspiration from their incredible resilience under such unbearable circumstances\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Duchess spoke at the Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide and delivered a message on behalf of The King, who said he was \u2018greatly saddened\u2019 not to be able to be there in person on the day. <\/p>\n

\u2018I humbly salute the Mothers of Srebrenica, and all who do so much, despite their continuing anguish, to preserve the memory of those who died. It has meant a very great deal to me, in past years, to have met survivors, mothers and family members of the missing, for whom I have such admiration,\u2019 read Sophie. The speech praised the \u2018extraordinary courage, compassion and dignity\u2019 of the families affected, saying they were \u2018a lesson to us all\u2019. The King\u2019s message also expressed his \u2018hope that we may all take inspiration from their incredible resilience under such unbearable circumstances\u2019.<\/p>\n

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King Charles\u2019 message, delivered by The Duchess, also said that while \u2018many of the individuals responsible are now rightly facing justice\u2019 for the genocide, \u2018this does not absolve the rest of us of our duties: both to acknowledge the international community\u2019s failure to prevent the horror and to do all we can to ensure it never happens again\u2019.<\/p>\n

The speech closed with a message of hope and remembrance: \u2018Three decades on, it is ever more important to remember all those who suffered, and to redouble our efforts to ensure a peaceful stable future for all the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The Duchess met and embraced some of the families affected, as well as laying flowers in memorial. She also visited a UK-funded exhibition at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, which \u2018displays the personal belongings of people who were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995, as well as items owned by people who survived,\u2019 explains the Royal Family\u2019s official website. <\/p>\n

On Sophie\u2019s arrival in Sarajevo, she walked around the Old Town with Velma \u0160ari\u0107, a local peacekeeper, who thanked Sophie for her work campaigning for the victims of sexual violence in conflict, according to The Mirror. The Duchess has travelled all over the world meeting affected communities and working with organisations on the subject. Sophie closely supports the UN\u2019s Women, Peace and Security agenda<\/a> and the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict initiative, which is led by the UK government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Duchess of Edinburgh has arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina to deliver an important speech on behalf of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1380,99063,1331,1102,4884,1330,712,99062,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-258284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-content-type-news","10":"tag-contentid-0f8771cc-f0b7-4595-becf-8ef92fb8eb09","11":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","12":"tag-edinburgh","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-locale-gb","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-shorttitle-duchess-of-edinburgh-delivers-message-of-hope","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114838965154558333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}