Elif Selin Calik Journalist and independent researcher, holds MA in Global Diplomacy from SOAS, University of London. Seeking truth and justice: How women rebuilt Srebrenica In July 1995, the safe haven of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina was attacked by Bosnian Serb forces resulting in the deaths of between 8,000 and 10,000 individuals. The Srebrenica anniversary is organized annually on July 11 and attracts and mobilizes local and international human rights activists, relatives, survivors and governmental representatives from around the world. However, no U.N. secretary-general has ever visited the graveyard and every year, tens of thousands of people gather to pay their respects to the dead and bury those who have been found and identified after years of being missing and a number of heads of state have made their way to Srebrenica-Potocari to express their condolences and remorse. Additionally, we have gotten used to seeing pictures of crying Srebrenica m